Quadrant, July 1st, 1999
The article discusses biographical information about former Soviet Union political leader Vladimir Lenin released since 1990. The information contradicts the myth Lenin had a proletariat background and was fundamentally a compassionate humanist. UNTIL RECENTLY, it was difficult to get a true image of the young Lenin and of his family background. The official Soviet literature always emphasised his closeness to the proletariat in origin and it was taken for granted that ethnically the leader of the Russian Revolution was pure Slav-Russian. But from documents published since 1990, a new face of...
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