Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speech (TiME, June 2) began. Signer Insabato, Peasants' Party, offered the loyal cooperation of his following with the Government; Signer Mancini, Maximalist (Communist) "straffed" Fascismo,? said the country was "disconcerted, oppressed and humiliated." Another Communist, forgetful of the Red hero's death, rose and cried "Long Live Lenin!" Pandemonium ensued, but was quickly squelched...
...story rises sombre and of more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor of the Imperial Court ?the whole shot through with the sharp truths of racial contrast and alien heritage...
...kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*-a manufacturer's view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect...
...Moscow, 10,000 Bolshevik children assembled before the jet black tomb of Lenin to take the "pledge of Leninism" or, in other words, to promise to support the dead Russian leader's principles. MM. Rykov, Trotzky, Kamenev, Bukharin?all Bolshecrats?spoke to the children. When War Lord Trotzky asked them if they were ready to sustain the doctrines, they replied: "We are always ready...
...stream of pilgrims visiting Lenin's tomb in Moscow was halted by order of the Government. It was observed through the glass lid of the coffin that the mortal remains of the Bolshevik leader were decomposing, despite the fact that they had been carefully embalmed. The body is not likely to be again exhibited...