[Ronnies] November results at last

[Sydney Freedberg]

To Ron:
I'm very doubtful I can find time to replicate the work you've already done, let alone the experience to analyze it with your insight, but perhaps I can do something good enough to post and flawed enough to provoke you into correcting me....

To Rob:
I'd agree that fictionalizing the setting is not necessarily ducking the issue -- well done, it can be a way of dodging around the defenses of preconception that people have about real historical or political events ("Commies is bad!" "If only Trotsky had prevailed, the Soviet Union would have been a true paradise!" etc.) and hitting the heart of the human issue by surprise.