Limitations of Kremlinology

During the last two decades a new occult art has entered our lives: the science of Kremlinology. Unlike other, genuine sciences, which developed in a rather haphazard fashion, Kremlinology arose to fulfill a very definite demand. When the second greatest power in the world, disposing of infinite military might, is governed in conditions of total secrecy, the foreign public, and especially the foreign governments which have to deal with this power, require expert information based upon recondite and painstaking analysis of every minute scrap of knowledge at their disposal. Hence Kremlinology.

The West has learned a great deal from the Kremlinologists. It has learned that no monolithic unity exists behind the Kremlin’s placid walls; that the autocratic rulers of Russia are. engaged in a constant ferocious struggle for power; that cliques, intrigues and treachery dominate the lives of the Communist chieftains. The struggle in the Kremlin is according to the rules of gang warfare; the rewards are great, and the penalties greater still.

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During the last two decades a new occult art has entered our lives: the science of Kremlinology. Unlike other, genuine sciences, which developed in a rather haphazard fashion, Kremlinology arose to fulfill a very definite demand. When the second greatest power in the world, disposing of infinite military might, is governed in conditions of total secrecy, the foreign public, and especially the foreign governments which have to deal with this power, require expert information based upon recondite and painstaking analysis of every minute scrap of knowledge at their disposal. Hence Kremlinology.

The West has learned a great deal from the Kremlinologists. It has learned that no monolithic unity exists behind the Kremlin’s placid walls; that the autocratic rulers of Russia are. engaged in a constant ferocious struggle for power; that cliques, intrigues and treachery dominate the lives of the Communist chieftains. The struggle in the Kremlin is according to the rules of gang warfare; the rewards are great, and the penalties greater still.