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History Lenin knew how to deal with recalcitrant thinkers, says Michael Burleigh - he put them on a boat and waved them off
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The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
BY LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN
ATLANTIC, pounds 25, 414 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870
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Lesley Chamberlain has a rare gift for animating philosophy
through intensely human stories. Her new book is a fascinating
account of Lenin's expatriation, in the autumn of 1922, of 70 of the
best minds in Russia. The thinkers, together with their families,
were rounded up and put on ships that took them to Germa...
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Forgotten men; The Russian revolution.(The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia)(Book review)
The Economist (US)
; IN THE autumn of 1922 Lenin deported 70 of the best minds in Russia, pushing them onto two German cruise ships: the Oberburgermeister Haken and the Preussen. Altogether 220 intellectuals, together with their families, were thrown out of Russia in preparation for the creation of the Soviet Union at
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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
; According to Dmitri Volkogonov, 'The greatest secret of Stalin's invulnerability, his diabolical strength, was his monopoly on Lenin'. But did Stalin have any right to claim this monopoly, which seemed almost to lend him rights of co-ownership of Lenin? In September 1938, as Munich transfixed
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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's Sainted Memory Remains Inviolable In the Age of Glasnost
The Washington Post
; "Lenin Lives." In seven decades of Soviet power, no slogan is more enduring. In a period of historic self-examination, when the Soviet press regularly attacks Joseph Stalin as a murderer and Leonid Brezhnev as a crook, the name of Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, is still sacred. Stinging
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Lenin.
The Economist (US)
; LENIN. By Dmitri Volkogonov. Free Press; 529 pages; $30. HarperCollins; Pounds 25 OF ALL the figures who have influenced the course of the 20th century few are as opaque, in personality and belief, as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin. Dmitri Volkogonov, a professed former believer in the
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