Tom Stoppard is not exactly the first playwright one would expect to write a 12-hour, three-play historical seminar on the origins of Russian socialism. Known best for Wildean wit-fests on philosophical, scientific and artistic questions, Stoppard spent much of his career dodging questions about being [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Interesting, but can Stoppard always have been so ignorant as to have thought that socialism was synonymous with historical materialism? It seems to have taken him a lifetime to discover that there have always been other kinds of socialism around.
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