Thompson Bradley taught Russian language and literature at Swarthmore College from 1962 to 2001. He has had a tremendous and continuing influence on colleagues, friends, students, and comrades in political organizing and action. This Festschrift honors his passion and dedication with contributions from three disciplines that most concerned him: literature, history, and politics Đ in each case, including both scholarship and writing about action.

Contents

Tom Newlin
Towards a Classless Society: In Honor of Thompson Bradley.................................1

W.D. Ehrhart
"To Swarthmore" (and to Tom Bradley)..............................................................................5

Joan Hutton Landis
The Dream Assignment............................................................................................................11

PART I. LITERATURE

John J. Hassett
Time and the Exile: Poli DŽlano's "Blowing in the Wind"........................................15

David L. Gehrenbeck
Decembrist Manipulation of the Chernov Affair:
A Literary Historical Tangle................................................................................................21

Maude Meisel
Spinning Stanislavsky: The 1952 Introduction to My Life in Art.........37

Julia Alissandratos
Nikolai Leskov's "Obnishchevantsy":
A Realization of the Encomiastic Narrative Pattern................................................57

Ellen Chances
The Thick Journal Novyi mir at the Peak of Glasnost-Era Euphoria.....71

PART II. HISTORY

Michael Scammell
Arthur Koestler's Apostasy: How and Why He Turned against the
Communist Party.......................................................................................................................87

Richard Schuldenfrei
Julius Rosenberg and the Ethics of the Old Left......................................................103

Jonathan Mirsky
The Never-Ending War.........................................................................................................117

Ronald Grigor Suny
The Limits of Comparative History: Theda Skocpol and the
Russian Revolution................................................................................................................141

Christine Holden
Some Official (and Semi-Official) American Views of
Russian Aviation Just Prior to and during World War I........................................155

Jane Gary Harris
Russian Women's Magazines (1900-26)........................................................................169

PART III. POLITICS

Barry Schwartz
Capitalism, the Market, the "Underclass," and the Future...................................179

Brad R. Roth
What's Left? Socialist Political Thought after the Fall.......................................195

Hugh Lacey
Listening to the Evidence.....................................................................................................213

Vishwanath R. Lingappa, Krista Farey, and Don Bechler
Health Care Reform as an Engine of Progressive Change......................................227

Notes on the Contributors...................................................................................................247