title: Bazhanov and the Damnation of Stalin
author:  Boris Bazhanov 
description: This expanded edition of Bazhanov's Avec Staline dans le Kremlin (1930) gives the reader an inside view of Kremlin politics during the 1920s and of Bazhanov's evolution from Stalin's assistant and secretary to the Politburo to virulent anti-Communist and defector. The first two-thirds of the book provides often fascinating vignettes of Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and, of course, Stalin. Self-serving and completely anecdotal, this reads eerily like some of the kiss-and-tell books coming out of the Reagan administration. The last third of the book chronicles Bazhanov's defection from the Soviet Union following his conversion (inadequately explained) to anti-Stalinism. Valuable to students of the Lenin-Stalin transition, this is recommended for upper division undergraduates and graduate libraries.<br /><i>- Kim H. Tunnicliff, Albion Coll . , Mich.</i><br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Blavatsky on Count Alessandro di Cagliostro v. 11.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 17 March 2018 
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  Blavatsky on Count 
  Alessandro di Cagliostro 
  
  BUDDHAS AND INITIATES SERIES 
  BLAVATSKY ON CAGLIOSTRO 
  Blavatsky on Count Alessandro di Cagliostro v. 11.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 17 March 2018 
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  Was Cagliostro a charlatan? 
  To send the injured unredressed away, 
  How great soe’er the offender, and the wrong’d. 
  Howe’er obscure, is wicked, weak and vile — 
  Degrades, defiles, and should dethrone a king. 
  — SMOLLETT 
   
  First published in: Lucifer, Vol. V, No. 29, January 1890, pp. 389-95. 
  Republished in: Blavatsky Collected Writings, XII pp. 78-88. 
  HE MENTION OF CAGLIOSTRO’S NAME produces a twofold effect. With the 
  one party, a whole sequence of marvellous events emerges from the shadowy 
  past; with others the modern progeny of a too realistic age, the name of Alex-
  ander, Count Cagliostro, provokes wonder, if not contempt. People are unable to un-
  d