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...Rapallo Conference of 1918, the newly-formed Bolshevik leadership of the Soviet Union, led by Lenin, did the same thing when they decided they simply had no obligation to pay back any of the millions of dollars in loans incurred during World War I back to their debtors. But at least they didn't try to make anyone believe they had a legal right...
...IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance in the tale of an idiot named Vova (Lenin's nickname), who moves in with a hapless couple and destroys their lives, is, of course, purely intentional. Schnittke limns the moral and social breakdown of "I" and his "Wife" in a score of terrifying, eclectic intensity. The first-rate performance, recorded live at the premiere last year in Amsterdam...
Murdoch sees himself as a radical provocateur. Yet the onetime student who kept a statue of Lenin in his Oxford digs is now a confirmed Thatcherite. "He deals in simplicities, and simplicities can be dangerous," Shawcross writes piously, referring to Murdoch's unshakable faith in the blessings of an international free market and the imposition of American values and products on the rest of the world...
...least eight marine reactors, three from the nuclear icebreaker Lenin and the others from decommissioned submarines, have been scuttled in Novaya Zemlya's shallow bays. The dead reactors are encased in layers of steel and may be harmless for many years. But inside, their cores contain dangerous isotopes...
...speed up the transition to free enterprise. Using the beige coupons as money, people + bought 59 used trucks in the first such sell-off in the city of Nizhni Novgorod. In fine irony, an auctioneer, clad in black dinner jacket, gaveled them off beneath a glowering statue of Lenin...