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Died. Angelica Balabanoff, 96, high priestess of socialism, a Ukrainian landowner's daughter turned revolutionary at age 19, confidante to Lenin and First Secretary of the Third Communist International, who broke with Communism in 1921, exposing her former heroes (My Life as a Rebel, Impressions of Lenin), but remained an unshaken believer in socialism, thereafter lending her support to Italian Social-Democrat Giuseppe Saragat and the U.S.'s Norman Thomas; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Rome...
Moscow's main attraction for the Communist faithful is the Lenin Tomb in Red Square. Every day, thousands of visitors walk silently past the glass and granite crypt, stare reverently at the dimly lit, waxy-looking corpse guarded by rigid soldiers, then file back into the sunlight. Last week Soviet officials announced that the mausoleum would be closed for the next two months. "Normal repairs," was the explanation. But on what-or whom...
...best. "He has his good days and his bad days," says an old Moscow hand. "I'm convinced they take him out now and then and do something to him. He looks pretty plastic in places." Indeed, some Kremlinologists believe that the figure in the tomb is not Lenin but a wax facsimile, and to the casual eye the face and hands look very much like old wax into which someone has inserted hair. Then again, there are very few 41-year-old corpses available for comparison. Nonetheless, dummy or mummy, Moscow's Joyboys will be busy...
Kazantzakis discusses the growth of his earliest and deepest passions, the urge for freedom and the urge for sancity. He analyzes his successive commitments to the contradictory philosophies of Christ, Buddha, Lenin, and Nietzsche. And, in some of his most sonorous passages, Kazantzakis chronicles a battle of the soul that has echoes through works from the Bible to Herzog--the duel between flesh and spirit. Characteristically, Kazantzakis writes of this battle in the most expansive terms...
...participant in the greatest social upheaval in history, Kerensky is even more disappointing. There is no account of the conniving and maneuvering that brought him from the status of a modest provincial lawyer to the leadership of Russia's first revolutionary government. Although he and Lenin were both born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) and his schoolmaster father had Lenin for a pupil, he met Lenin only once, and then only long enough to hear Lenin demand his dismissal and his arrest. He never knew Stalin or Trotsky. In general, personal insights are missing...