Word: ulyanov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ilyitch in this cold war burlesque was Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov, latterly known as Lenin, and where he slept (during the summer of 1916) was a palatial Swiss chalet outside Bern. Or at least that is the sales story of the villa's canny proprietress, who has long tried to sell it to the Soviet embassy. But the Kremlin professes disinterest-until suddenly the historic site is bought by one Parker Atherton III and his wife Bliss, "a severely elegant, strong-minded girl with auburn hair and a trust fund." Atherton is a vice consul at the U.S. embassy...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born 94 years ago in a comfortable frame house in the small, sleepy city of Simbirsk, deep in the Russian heartland. His mother, a Lutheran, was a Volga German; his father Ilya, of Russian-Mongolian ancestry, was a teacher who rose to the post of director of elementary schools for his province and received a minor patent of nobility from the Czar. The Ulyanovs were seemingly untouched by the vast, ancient and epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood...
Provincial Grocer. Vladimir Ulyanov sat on the stove in a spare kitchen in his grandfather's house and read Das Kapital, convinced that here at last was the weapon to bring down the state and lift oppression from the backs of the people. Among his first disciples were his younger brother and his sisters. While he worked for a law degree and wherever he went, Vladimir founded or joined Marxist study groups, and he traveled abroad to meet the exiled leaders of the outlawed Marxist party, then still known as the Social Democrats...