Eric Byrd’s Reviews > Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg > Status Update

"Gorky was appalled...by the daily deaths and deprivations, which threatened to wipe off the face of the earth not only middle-aged and older scholars and scientists of world renown but the entire intelligentsia as a class. The only ones with some hope of survival were those who could claim a proletarian background and those who by some miracle had been hired by the Soviets to work in a bureau or supply depot."