![]() Both the “Tea Party” movement and the Obama faithful can learn something from the Mr. ![]() Zhivago,” but that novel has faded into the distant past with this generation of readers. There is nothing here that wasn’t explored in “Dr. The elder brother of a peasant family, whose parents were slain by the aristocracy, becomes a leader in the Bolshevik revolutionary movement only to see it perverted by the communists under Lenin and Stalin. The Russians are perhaps the most interesting and informative characters in the book. They were assault troops roughly equivalent to Marines in the United States or Britain today. Storm troopers in World War I were not the equivalent of the perversion of the term that the Nazi Party turned it into. The son secretly marries an English noblewoman and becomes a storm trooper in the trenches on the western front to show his loyalty to the fatherland. The Germans are represented by an idealistic young aristocrat, and his very conservative Prussian army officer father. ![]()
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