Criticism
Malcolm Muggeridge, who met Mirsky after his return to USSR, apparently met one of the author's critics, a French correspondent to Russia named Luciani, who had this to say of Mirsky:
Mirsky had pulled off the unusual feat of managing to be a parasite under three regimes — as a prince under Czarism, as a professor under Capitalism, and as an homme-de-lettres under Communism.
Mirsky is familiar today partly because he is mentioned in George Orwell's work The Road to Wigan Pier, where Orwell is highly critical of The Intelligentsia of Great Britain. Thirty years later, however, Tariq Ali gave a more favourable assessment in his The Coming British Revolution.
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