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One of the epigraphs to the late Richard Pipes’s great book “The Russian Revolution” cites the Russian minister of justice in 1915, who said, “The paralytics of the government are struggling feebly, as if unwillingly, with the epileptics of the revolution.”
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
