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...more name changes. According to these proposals, the capital's Rhodes Avenue, named for Rhodesia's founder, Cecil Rhodes, will become Marshal Tito Avenue. Victoria Street, named for Queen Victoria, will be Karl Marx Street. Stanley Avenue, honoring British Explorer Henry Morton Stanley, will be Vladimir Lenin Avenue...
...Brezhnev turns up this week in Moscow for the annual festivities marking the birthday of Vladimir I. Lenin, founder of the Soviet state-an important occasion on the Kremlin calendar-the rumors may be put to rest. But if he is absent, speculation about his deteriorating health is sure to intensify...
What remains of Lenin's body is still lying in a glass case in the mausoleum. At least that is what the other American students enrolled in the special year-long program at Moscow University told me. Our group had scheduled a visit to the resting place of the humble genius of the revolution, but John and I arrived late and missed the tour. How were we to know that it would take 15 minutes for the single elevator to respond to our call from the fifteenth floor cafe near Red Square? While John waited loyally by the elevator doors...
Though we did not make it to the mausoleum that day, we did not miss Lenin because he is still, in the words of the Russian poet Mayakovsky, "more alive than all the living." His portrait graces billboards and blackboards alike. His name lends its dignity to Moscow State University, the city library, and entire metro system, not to mention what was formerly St. Petersburg...
...Lenin's presence in Moscow and Leningrad was particularly conspicuous during the week preceding the November 7 celebrations of the 1917 revolution. Giant socialist-realist canvas murals, sometimes covering the fronts of entire buildings, portrayed his larger-than-life countenance...