Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Film Archive--Double feature of Three Songs of Lenin directed by Dziga Vertov at 7 p.m. and The End of St. Petersburg directed by V. I. Pudovkin at 8:15 p.m. $5. Nanook of the North directed by Robert Flaherty...
...late magazine's name had a double meaning, referring to both the inevitable question of what to do on the weekends and the title of Nicholas Chernyshezskii's novel of a Communist utopia, later appropriated by V. I. Lenin...
...that old man is still around, he has his wish. Lenin's statues have been toppled, and the elegant former imperial capital, built by Czar Peter the Great, has its historic name once more. So do dozens, if not hundreds, of towns, cities and now independent states throughout the former Soviet Union, where names that reflect the communist past have been declared non grata...
...that Moscow no longer runs the former union, local governments are returning to traditional national place names that evoke far different memories. They are dumping the old communists: the city of Andropov, for Yuri Andropov, party boss from 1982 to '84, is Rybinsk again; Sverdlovsk, for Lenin's henchman Yakov Sverdlov, who approved the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family there, has reassumed the proud title Yekaterinburg, for Peter the Great's wife, Catherine...
Yeltsin can never forget that the Bolshevik Revolution came to power on Lenin's promise to give the people bread. The shock-therapy program will be under pressure to show some quick results, or popular unrest could grow. An elderly woman begging on a Moscow street corner last week cried, "Please give me some money. I cannot even afford to buy bread now." Yeltsin has given the Russians pain; now he must deliver the gain...