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Article: Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s.(Book review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008), xv + 312 pp. Notes. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index, $39.95 e-book, $49.95 POD.
The term "fellow travellers" has always had a pejorative ring to it. Derived from the Russian poputchiki, those who accompanied one on a long journey, but only part way, Lenin dismissed the non-communist party fellow travellers of the 1917 October revolution as weak "petit bourgeois" who would lead the proletariat astray, while Trotsky later asked of the "'literary fellow traveller' [...] how far will ...