Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vladimir Ilich Lenin bathed, personally, in blood as seldom as he could. When it became necessary to sign death warrants by the thousands and eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...
Dzerzhinsky, starved of Bolshevist theory, self-goaded to half-mad labors, became, when the Red Revolution set him free, the most practical, most tireless, most in- corruptible henchman of Lenin...
...They identify everything connected with "social work" with "Socialism," or more often with Bolshevism. She cited the case of a distinguished member of Congress who "had it on very good authority" that the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. constitution had been written by the late Dictator Lenin in Moscow...
Another noteworthy characteristic of Russ an education is that it is frankly altruistic. Lenin said that the most harmful influence among the human beings of the present age is the muddle of superstitions called religion. This sentiment is fully carried out in the Soviet instruction, which seeks completely to eradicate from the minds of the masses the religious feelings which still are lodged in them...
...current Passaic garmentworkers' strike was recorded in all its gory glory by Mary Heaton Vorse. An editor of the New Student compiled reports of undergraduate demonstrations of all kinds and dimensions to show how many "learners" were "in active revolt." More coherent was a dialog in limbo between Lenin and Anatole France, by Poet Babette Deutsch. More profound, and quite un-Communistic save in its departure from conventional form, was an "Apology for Bad Dreams" by the country's new national poet, Robinson Jeffers of the Pacific headlands...