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Revolution wrenching in `The Peace'
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History never repeats itself exactly. But if carefully listened
to and analyzed, the echoes of the past can often serve as warning
bells.
Mikhail Shatrov's fascinating docudrama, "The Peace of
Brest-Litovsk," which opened Monday night at the Civic Theatre in a
stirring production by the Vakhtangov Theatre of Moscow, was written
more than two decades ago.
Designed to be a corrective to the Stalinist perversion of
Russian revolutionary history, the play depicts Lenin as a for...
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Nordic city where Lenin first met Stalin European Times: TAMPERE, FINLAND
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; AT THE cash till of the Lenin museum in the Finnish city of Tampere, Lyubov Prociatnikova is in reflective mood. The money she earns may not be much, but her standard of living is much higher than in her native city of Sochi. The atmosphere at the museum is very good and reminiscent of bygone
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In Berlin, Lenin's Last Stand; Protests and Weather Delay Demolition of Towering Statue
The Washington Post
; ... tribute to Lenin - even if it is one of the largest still standing outside the Soviet Union - should not even have registered as news. But the colossal Lenin statue that stood for 21 years in a prominent square surrounded by shabby Stalinist high-rise apartment ...
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Nostalgic for Lenin; Long-Dead Leader Is Still Exalted by Many Who Equate Him With the Order Russia Now Lacks
The Washington Post
; They wound their way the granite tomb, down the long stairs, past the watchful uniformed guards, into the high-ceilinged vault, around the glass sarcophagus where Vladimir Ilyich Lenin lies embalmed, and then back up the stairs into the open expanse of Red Square on a bright spring day. Pausing
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Lenin: A New Biography.
The Nation
; The publication of the Russian edition of Dmitri Volkogonov's 1,000-page, two-volume Lenin last summer did not cause a sensation among specialists or arouse any noticeable interest among the public. The book did not sell out and even now--several months after it first appeared--it can still be
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Lenin's wonderful Georgian: John Etty charts the complex, and highly significant, relationship between Lenin and Stalin.(Profiles in Power)(Valdimir Lenin I)(Biography)
History Review
; ... attempting to keep Lenin informed about political affairs. (He was perhaps more annoyed that Lenin was receiving a more varied news diet than Stalin himself was carefully providing than by the possibility that Lenin's health might be suffering as a result of ...
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Lenin: a Biography.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History
; by Robert Service. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. xxv, 561 pp. $18.95 U.S. (paper). Any biographer of Lenin has an unenviable task. To write about someone whose life has been scrutinized with searching intensity for almost a century, whose career as a
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lenin bio attempts to provide a balanced view, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
; 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
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A HUMANIZING NEW BIOGRAPHY OF LENIN
The Boston Globe
; The leaders of the Bolshevik revolution, which transformed Russia and eventually most of Eastern Europe and Asia, were fiery, driven men and women. Their leader, V. I. Lenin, was the fieriest of all. Leon Trotsky may have been purer in his convictions, Joseph Stalin steelier in his cruelty. But
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The Lenin Locomotive
The Washington Post
; SEVEN DAYS TO PETROGRAD By Tom Hyman Viking. 412 pp. $18.95 There's something about a train Well, yes, especially if the passenger list includes V.I. Lenin, 32 exiled and bickering Bolsheviks and an American assassin. Load them up, lock the doors, paint the windows black and haul them from
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Lenin: A Biography
Ideas on Liberty
; Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service Harvard University Press * 2000 * 592 pages * $37.50 Robert Service is University Lecturer in Modern Russian History at St. Anthony's College and a well-known specialist in twentieth-century Russian history. His most recent book, Lenin: A Biography, provides the
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