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Harrison Salisbury, Black Night, White Snow, pp. 334-5.
26. John Reed, Ten Days That Shook The World, pp. 10, 35.
27.4
n 1921 Russian pig-iron production was about one-fifth of its 1913 level, that
of coal a tiny 3 per cent or so...." J.M. Roberts, The Pelican History of the World, pp.
842-843.
28. These figures come from the official Central Statistical Bureau of the USSR.
Cited in Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr M. Nekrich, Utopia In Power: The History of
the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present, p. 120.  Also see Bruce W. Lincoln, Red
Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War, Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1989.
29. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Civic Timidity Is Killing Perestroika," Liturnaya Gazeta,
reprinted in World Press Review, July, 1988, p. 27.
30. Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr M. Nekrich, Utopia In Power: The History of the
Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present, p. 235.  The figure of fifteen million deaths
comes from Iosif G. Dyadkin, Unnatural Deaths in the USSR, 1928-1954,
Transaction Books, New Brunswick, New Jersey, p. 25.  Dyadkin was professor of
geophysics at the All-Union Geophysical Research Institute in the Soviet town of
Kalinin until he was arrested in 1980 for writing this book.
31. J.R. Tanner, C.W. Previte-Orton, Z.N. Brooke, eds., Cambridge Medieval
History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1968, p. 285.  Norman
Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium, Oxford University Press, New York, 1974, pp.
136-140.  Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture,
pp. 194-197.
32. For an extremely good account of the struggle that  split the early Moslem world
between Shiites and Sunnis, see Mohammad Heikal, The Return of the Ayatollah,
Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1981 (1983 paperback edition), pp. 75-80.  Heikal
was the longtime editor of Egypt's leading newspaper, Al Ahram, and was a close
confidant of Egyptian President Gamal Abdal Nasser.  His analysis provides the
foundation on which my narrative is based.  For the emotional dimension of the
Shiite faith, see Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, pp. 146-154.  See also E.L.
Danie, "Abbasid Dynasty," in Ainslie Thomas Embree, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian
History, Vol. I, p. 3.
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