Stalin is doom just as Robespierre was doom. One thing is obvious: the superhuman grip with which he holds Russia cannot last forever. It is impossible to force the present generations to sacrifice perpetually for the sake of the future. Sometime they will rise and say : "We want also to live, not for the coming ages, but for our own sake." This is a law of history. All revolutions have closed thus. The October revolution in Russia will doubtless close precisely in the same way.