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...days after the assassination I was at a reception at Kiev University. Noticing I was an American, several students came over to offer their condolences. "You shouldn't let these extremists get away with such things," one of them said. "When the an-archists tried to kill Lenin here we had the Red Terror against them. That stopped them. You people should try that...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These two short novels by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch concern outsiders in post-Stalin society: an earnest young man who believes Lenin to the letter, and an ancient, impoverished peasant woman...
...Kwame Nkrumah is to Africa today what Lenin was to the Soviet Union in 1917," Ghana's Defense Minister said recently. The parallel is most apt, for Nkrumah is rapidly turning his country into an absolute dictatorship. Items last week...
...been different? As a personality, Trotsky was far more appealing than Stalin. In some ways, this anti-individualist was a true Renaissance man: brilliant orator, tough administrator, incisive historian, spectacular general. But he was also a fanatic and almost as contemptuous of human freedom as Stalin. In power alongside Lenin, he hamstrung trade unions, conscripted labor, suppressed opposition, and drove the Mensheviks from office with words that would in time be used against him: "Go where you belong from now on-to the rubbish can of history...
Dunne loathed no one more than H. G. Wells, who belonged, he said, to the "Take-It-Aisy School of Socialism." With great fanfare, writes Dunne, Wells once met the "taciturn, cynical Lenin with his yellow skin drawn like parchment over his high cheekbones, his little restless eyes, his great bald head looking as if it might have been hewn out of yellow pine with an adze. And here was little Wells, earnest, honest, conceited, describing in his falsetto voice the British conception of a Secialist Utopia of semidetached villas with a pot of geraniums in each window. When...