Article: Lenin lives!

'MOSCOW (AP)--Taking what may be the greatest political gamble of the twentieht century, Soviet officials here today claimed they have performed a medical feat of sensational proportions: the resurrection of Russian revolutionary leader V. I. Lenin, who died exactly sixty years ago." So starts Gregory O'Brienhs titillating first novel, whose story unfolds day by day, for 31 days, entirely through media reports. UPI is quick with its backgrounder. ". . . In the Soviet Union . . . Lenin is a combination of Abraham Lincoln, Muhammad Ali, and Robert Redford. . . . Lenin was actually born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in the Volga River town of Simbirsk a few months after the ...

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