Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Letters section of TIME, Nov. 16, Mr. Dawson P. Adams claimed that John Reed, Harvard alumnus and one of the first American Communists, is buried in the Red Square at Moscow "in a grassy terrace on one side of Lenin's tomb." According to you, Mr. William C. Bullitt, first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and now Ambassador to France, denied this and said that Reed's ashes were interred behind a plaque in the Kremlin wall...
...course, Trotsky is only the convenient mouthpiece for the group of cosmopolitan revolutionaries forming the general staff of the class warfare of the world, a staff possessing brain power and resources greater than anything Lenin's followers had before the War. "There is good reason to suspect that the 'Free International' has drawn a large part of its present funds from gold exported by the Government of Spain. The Spanish Republicans removed from Madrid gold of an estimated value of $400,000,000. To insure safety against claims by General Francisco Franco's Insurgents, much...
...SOVIETS-Albert Rhys Williams- Harcourt, Brace ($3). To 88 most mauled questions on Soviet Russia, this 554-page volume supplies "constructive" ready answers, condensed biographies of Lenin and Stalin, an impartial reading list of 450 books in English...
...their correspondence grew, the revolutionaries referred to themselves and each other by various nicknames. Lunacharsky became "the Destroyer." Litvinoff "Papa"'; Lenin, after trying various signatures such as "Meyer" and "Petroff," became the "Old Man." Lenin's organizing ability, implacable common sense and long view gradually put him in control of the majority (Bolsheviks) in the organization. His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian." "I know, I know it very well, I never forget this, but that is the tragedy (I promise you 'tragedy' is not too strong a word...
...Lenin's big hour, when the Revolution had brought him hurrying back to Russia, the tone of his letters hardly changes. He writes Karl Radek in Stockholm: "The position is arch-complicated and arch-interesting." But with Kerensky out of the way and Lenin and his Bolsheviks in charge at last, his discursive letters shrink to notes and telegrams, their subjects swell to dictatorial size: "Advise you send them six months forced labour in mines. . . . Today at all costs Rostov must be taken. . . . Mobilize all forces. Immediately set afoot everything for catching the culprits. Stop all motor cars...