Obituary Note: Lev Navrozov

Lev Navrozov, a "literary translator in the Soviet Union who smuggled out his study of Lenin and Stalin's campaigns of terror when he emigrated to the United States in 1972," died January 22, the New York Times reported. He was 88. In his book The Education of Lev Navrozov: A Life in the Enclosed World Once Called Russia (1975), Navrozov described Lenin as a "barbarian" unworthy of his country's deification.

Saul Bellow, in his novel More Die of Heartbreak, placed Navrozov among the dissident writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Maximov and Andrei Sinyavsky as "commanding figures, men of genius, some of them."

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