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Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, who used 160 pseudonyms, the most famous being Lenin, woke up at 10:30 a.m. on the day he was to die. About 18 months earlier, he had suffered a massive stroke and never fully recovered, so 10:30 was not so late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into...
...cause of death remains uncertain--some say it was syphilis; others say an operation to remove a bullet from his neck damaged him. (He had been shot in 1918 by a young anarchist who was herself promptly shot.) One theory among good communists was that Lenin, who was just 53, had simply worked himself to death; he had driven himself hard, especially for a son of such a prosperous family. (One of his grandfathers had been a landowner with personal control over 40 peasant families...
...selections, we have been poring over the timelines of history, beginning in 1923, the year Henry Luce and Briton Hadden started this magazine. One day that year, the obscure rabble-rouser Adolf Hitler grabbed his first headlines by staging his failed beer-hall putsch. One day the following year, Lenin died, making way for Stalin. It was clear that the 20th century was not moving on horseback. One evening just three years later, Charles Lindbergh landed his plane near Paris, and suddenly the world seemed a lot smaller...
...elites. David Brooks of The Weekly Standard recently wrote, “Very little attention has been paid to what Saddam wants and what Saddam believes.” Saddam was tutored in the Baath party ideology by one of its founders, Michel Aflaq, who especially admired Marx, Nietzsche, Lenin and the Russian Communist party. He synthesized these philosophical ideals, tinted by a conviction of Arab racial superiority, into an ideology that envisioned ongoing violent revolution and a transcendent political messianism...
...Like many intellectuals of the day, Hirschfeld flirted with Communism, visiting the Soviet Union in 1927 and contributing dank, poignant lithographs to The New Masses in the 30s. But fate decreed that Lenin and Bulganin, as worthy as they were of caricature, would not be Hirschfeld's prime subjects. He would spend the rest of his career attending Broadway first nights, not Stalin inaugurals. He stayed out of politics; otherwise he might be drawing Jenin and Jerusalem today...