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...Lenin was moved almost to tears by Beethoven, and he loved flowers; once, gazing at a clump of broken lilac branches, he murmured: "It pains me, you know." But Lenin could also sign a sheaf of blank execution orders, leaving Trotsky to fill in the names. Last week Izvestia splashed a story across its pages designed to show that Lenin could feel as kindly toward people as toward flowers...
...position of a Red nation in Communism's ideological conflict can be judged by the location of corpses and symbols. After the 22nd Communist Party Congress voted last October to remove Joseph Stalin from the Red Square tomb he shared with Lenin, Czechoslovakia's Communist Party announced a similar assault on the cult of personality. Stalin ist Klement Gottwald, who led the party to power in 1948 (and died in 1953 of pneumonia and pleurisy contracted at Stalin's funeral) was to be moved from his mausoleum. But visiting Prague last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Ball discovered...
...other organization will be a reincarnation of the Harvard Socialist Club, which died of apathy in 1960. Its new founder, Joseph F. Knowles '65, said yesterday that he considers present Russian communism "a corruption of Marxism," but added, "I am coming into a much greater appreciation of Lenin." He said his group might affiliate with the Young Socialist Alliance...
...mind would think calling a Russian girl "Beulah Beulahvich" is funny, but Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul do it anyway in a scene about two Soviets in a satellite. After that howler is repeated, Beulah reads a letter from the government saying. "On Stalin Prize certificate for 1952, read 'Lenin.'" Very funy, or at least it would be if the joke weren't older than the actors. And so it goes, in so many scenes: the tried-and-true, hoary wisecracks...
...this crucial period in Russian history. British policy was based on fundamental misconceptions from start to finish. Most blatant was the assumption that the Bolsheviks would profit from a renewed war effort: the resting period provided by Brest-Litovsk was vital to the consolidation of the Soviet regime and Lenin and Trotsky had no desire to involve themselves with one of the "bourgeois" alliances...