Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faces of many individuals in the rush of events remain in my memory, I cannot remember even having seen Kamenev, Zinoviev or Stalin then. Later they and lots of people blossomed out, but in the days of 'do or die' there was just one big figure-TROTSKY." Lenin in the hottest days for Reds had skipped out of Petrograd (now Leningrad) to the safety of Finland...
...when Soviet newsorgans mention Trotsky they never do so except in hysterically abusive terms which flatly contradict the facts of 1917. It is now Stalin who in those days of do or die largely made the Revolution, though the Dictator with becoming modesty calls himself "only the disciple of Lenin...
...whole Soviet generation is growing up to idolize Stalin-and dead Old Bolsheviks tell no tales. It is a fact that of the 1917 Communist Quintet (Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin) who won the Revolution and later became the undisputed masters of Russia, only Stalin and Trotsky have escaped death...
Straight went Trotsky to seek famed Lenin who then lived in London, writing in the Reading Room of the British Museum the revolutionary tracts which were to alter the world. Trotsky, always impatient, rushed immediately to Lenin's house and routed him out just before dawn. The majestically calm genius of Lenin and the excited, flashing genius of Trotsky led then and there to a long, foggy, disputatious walk in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey...
Everyone read the screaming headlines and dispatches which, from the outbreak of the Bolshevist revolution in 1917 to the expulsion from Russia of Trotsky in 1929 made his name a household word in even land and stamped Bolshevism for all time with the trademark of "Lenin & Trotsky," but not everyone today could define Trotskyism...