Koba (play)
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The play involves fictitious characters, but parallels the life of Joseph Stalin. Characters include Peter, Max and George, along with Joseph - later Koba - and Jordan, based on Vladimir Lenin. It takes a mixed view of the Stalin-character:
- LUKE: What we have really to face is how all this happened, how we became strong.
- MARK: It was not only Koba. In many ways he made us weaker.
- LUKE: But in other ways stronger.
- (Act Two, Scene VII).
Raymond Williams's later thoughts on the play and the wider question of the Soviet Union can be found in Politics and Letters; Part V, Chapter 3.
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