Douglas Smith Russian Aristocrats Now Us?

‘Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy’ 
by Douglas Smith is a story of a mass experience told through individual perspectives

David Walton, Dallas News

"'Chased from their homes and their property expropriated, forced to clean the streets as a form of public humiliation, sent to labor camps, killed with a bullet to the back of the head for the crime of their social origins, Russian nobles were one of the first groups subjected to a brand of political violence that became a hallmark of the past century.' ...

"Two million 'former people' died in the first 30 years of Soviet rule. By the end of World War II, the old nobility had vanished." ...

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Many scholars now conclude that the Marxists soon realized the fatal and highly embarrassing flaw in their workers' revolution: workers weren't really interested in becoming Marxists. Like everyone else, they had no great desire for a classless society where you could not own one more potato than your destitute neighbor. So the workers' revolution was replaced by a racial one, which was just fine since the original target of the Bolsheviks was not really the Russian aristocracy, but Western civilization itself. So far this new strategy, now hidden behind a different mask, has been a a smashing and breaking success. 

For more on this: 'The Culture of Critique', by Kevin MacDonald.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0759672229