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What is A discourse on government: Nakae Chomin and his Sansuijin keirin mondo : an essay and introduction (Occasional paper - Western Washington State College, Program in East Asian Studies ; no. 10) about?
The idea of writing this brief life story has not come from me. I have never thought to write one, not because I am, in principle, opposed to the idea but simply because it has never occurred tome. I should add that I never thought that such a story might be of any interest to others, not to mention that I am not so ambitious as to yearn for fame. I have done only what I wanted to accomplish in order to satisfy my own curiosity. Besides, in order to write a complete autobiography, one must have ample materials, such as notes and diaries. I had kept a diary before the revolution of 1917 but not after it, although the period following the revolution was in many respects the most interesting one. Diaries became very dangerous after the October revolution, as the Soviet secret police, when raiding people's homes, was especially eager to confiscate diaries. Information in diaries, such as the names and addresses of various persons, could have dire, sometimes fatal, consequences for a diary's author and for the persons mentioned in it. Later, when I lived in war-time Germany, I did not keep a diary because living conditions were so harsh that keeping a diary would have been the last thin
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Poppe Nicholas
- Publisher
- Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780914584032
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Political Science, History