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...time: April 1920. The place: a shabby eighth-floor attic in Moscow, where Yuli Martov, a leader of the defeated Social Democrats, is in hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat...
...moral was highly pertinent: kindly Nikita Khrushchev, again wrapping himself in Lenin's magic mantle, was justifying the relatively lenient treatment meted out to his own defeated rivals-former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov-who faced only obscurity, not firing squads...
...Though Lenin really did hold Martov in deep affection, Martov never went underground, and spoke at a meeting of the Moscow Soviet a month after his supposed escape. He asked for an exit visa and left legally via Estonia. Izvestia's version proved the aptness of a Russian proverb Khrushchev has known since childhood: "Better a clever lie than the dull truth...
...large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx's Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Marxist doctrine still guides Russia today. From Lenin to Khrushchev, Russia's Communist leaders have placed the full-bearded German Jew high on the honor roll of their country's heroes. But no man is less deserving of that dubious distinction-an irony of history recalled this week with publication of a slender book, Marx vs. Russia (Frederick Ungar Publishing...
...What a Character." Few recall that Mussolini once fancied himself as "the Lenin of Italy" and that Lenin himself (though Hibbert does not record the fact) returned the compliment by calling him the most hopeful prospect for Bolshevism among Europe's Socialists. In those days before World War I, Mussolini was a wide-eyed, impoverished zealot living in Milan. He edited a paper called La Lotta di Classe (The Class War), had written an anticlerical novelette, The Cardinal's Mistress, and was dedicated to revolution -particularly the violent revolution of the Communist creed. "Who has steel has bread...