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Article: LONG-SECRET DOCUMENTS REVEAL LENIN'S MOST MERCILESS MOMENTS.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 11, 1996
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It was between 1917, when he arrived at the Finland Station in St. Petersburg on his return from exile, and 1922, when he was crippled by a stroke, that Vladimir Lenin exercised tyrannical power in the Soviet Union, forging the standard practices of 20th-century totalitarianism.
Just how many of those practices started with Lenin is the main import of this collection of 122 formerly secret documents, culled from newly opened Soviet archives. The collection is edited, with copious and indispensable explanatory notes, by Richard Pipes, the distinguished professor of Russian history at Harvard University.
This appearance of what might be called Lenin behind ...