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Written by Dramatist. Mikhail Shatrov, Thus We Will Win uses Lenin's surreptitious visit to his Kremlin office several months before his death in January 1924 as the starting point for a three-hour flashback through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Soviet audiences sit rapt as Actor Alexander Kalyagin, a startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish...
...apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start of a period of transition, Shatrov's courageous play is a sign that some voices are speaking out for a re-examination of the traditions and practices of the Soviet state...