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Stalin -- rough, conspiratorial, despising authority -- was a natural Marxist revolutionary. While studying at a Russian Orthodox seminary in his native Georgia, he became a convert to Marx and never changed course. His career contrasted with Hitler's because his movement already had a leader, Lenin. Unlike Hitler's public portrayal of himself as a man of destiny, Stalin's style was stealthy, behind the scenes...
...From the moment in 1917 when Lenin arrived at the Finland Station in the city that would for decades bear his name, the conflict with communism has overshadowed our century. It dominated our politics, our hopes and fears, our view of the world. It cost us many lives and much money. We learned to live with a permanent enemy, studied his every trait and listened to his endless, dreary polemics (we should not overlook sheer boredom as a factor in communism's fall...
Founded in 1912 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Pravda was closed three times by Czar Nicholas, and again by Alexander Kerensky in 1917. The once proud party organ last week lamented, with fine irony, the "planned economic strangulation of free, independent media...
...sale. There are few consumer goods available, but selling symbols of the discredited past seems to be a booming business. The West African People's Republic of Benin, bucking the worldwide trend, is said to have paid $75,000 for a statue of founding father Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The ZIL limousines of the former leadership are on the block at as much as $10,000. Old government telephones made of semiprecious metals can reportedly be had for $400 each, complete with anti-bugging devices...
...BERLIN WALL is gone, communism is fading into an esoteric academic study and, thus, we move from our reference to Vladimir Lenin's question, "What is to be Done?" to "Fifteen Minutes." Our new weekly magazine retains many of the old features of the "What" while adding many new departments...