lenin bio attempts to provide a balanced view, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

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Tom Gallagher
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
08-11-2000
When Vladimir Il'ich Ulyanov arrived with his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya
at Petrograd's Finland Station on April 3, 1917, there were few who could
recognize them - they had spent much of the last twenty years "sitting
on their suitcases" in Western European cities. Ulyanov had employed 160
pseudonyms in that period. The one attached to "What Is to Be Done," his
1902 call to action, stuck - it was Lenin.

As rival revolutionary, the Menshevik Fyodor Dan described it, Lenin
had spent those years in exile "pre-occupied 24 hours a day with ...

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