Muggeridge, Malcolm | William F. Buckley, Jr. (review date 19 February 1988)
William F. Buckley, Jr. (review date 19 February 1988)
SOURCE: Buckley, William F. Jr. “Uncovering Stalinism.” National Review 40, no. 3 (19 February 1988): 56.
[In the following review of Winter in Moscow, Buckley praises Muggeridge's command of detail and his ability to write convincing vignettes.]
Before there was Solzhenitsyn, or Pasternak, or Djilas, or Orwell, or Koestler, there was Muggeridge. He covered, or uncovered, the Soviet Union for the Manchester Guardian in 1932-33, laying bare its stupendous horrors even as Walter Duranty and Claud Cockburn were dutifully retailing their obsequious lies about Stalin for American and English readers. He told the West about the Ukrainian famine, a feature of Stalin's farm-collectivization program whose magnitude—on the order of 14 million deaths—is only now penetrating the consciousness.
The truth about Stalin was only part of the story Muggeridge had to tell,...
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