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...career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl: "We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit. ..." Dying, Lenin warns the Bolsheviks to remove Stalin from power before it is too late...
...Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night of April 16, 1917, arrived Vladimir Hitch Lenin. He was late: like most Russian trains, even the train bringing Lenin to the Revolution was not on time...
...Lenin spoke in his harsh, rasping voice to the crowd. "Dear comrades, soldiers, sailors and workers, I ... greet you as the advance guard of the international proletarian army. . . . Not today, but tomorrow, any day, may see the general collapse of European capitalism. The Russian revolution . . . has dealt it the first blow and has opened a new epoch. . .. Long live the International Social Revolution!" Then an armored car took him to revolutionary headquarters...
...Finland Station is also a symbol. Here, in the person of Lenin, socialism first issued from the dank sub-cellars of contemporary society, where like an exterminating virus it had developed in the dark. Here socialism first ceased to be merely a theory and became a political reality. Here it prepared to master a great State, rule 170,000,000 people. But Lenin was wrong about the world revolution. It was not until 20 years later that three variants of socialism-Stalinism, Naziism, Fascism-were to combine under German leadership in a world revolution against democratic, capitalist civilization...
Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of Widener Library, personally conducted the negotiations, securing thousands of documents which are ultimately destined for the Treasure Room, but are still reposing in their original crates to date. Headlining the items is a copy of the so-called "Testament of Lenin...