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...Says Cornell University Sovietologist Myron Rush: "Unless Brezhnev is really enfeebled, he will not step down in favor of someone else. Brezhnev's will to power should never be underestimated." Indeed, many Kremlinologists are waiting to see if Brezhnev makes an appearance at the annual celebration to mark Lenin's birthday on April...
Warnings from a stage Lenin...
...desk in a dimly lit study. He has come to retrieve a red folder containing his will. But as Muscovites who have been flocking to the new production soon discover, Thus We Will Win is no routine story of squabbling heirs. The character at center stage is Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state; the document he seeks is a political testament in which he warns his colleagues of future perils to the Communist Party...
Written by Dramatist. Mikhail Shatrov, Thus We Will Win uses Lenin's surreptitious visit to his Kremlin office several months before his death in January 1924 as the starting point for a three-hour flashback through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Soviet audiences sit rapt as Actor Alexander Kalyagin, a startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish...
...nation where audiences assiduously hunt for modern meaning in productions of Shakespeare, the parallels with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and the impending struggle to succeed him are obvious. Says one Moscow viewer: "Not everything today is the way Lenin is saying it should be." Indeed, during a recent performance there was a brief tremor of applause in the balcony when Kalyagin suggested that the post of general secretary should be subject to greater party control...