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Only once did the name Alex Gumberg ever appear in a newspaper headline. That was last week when at 51 he died suddenly in Norwalk, Conn., stricken with coronary thrombosis while entertaining at his country home. Yet in one short life he had been a trusted adviser to Nikolai Lenin and the confidant of a Morgan partner...
...telegraph, telephone and other Government offices. The Congress then met, not in the Kremlin, but in what had been a girl's finishing school; on the night of Nov. 6, 1917, a few hours before it was to be called to order, a short, baldheaded, tireless revolutionary named Lenin stepped out of hiding before the delegates, stilled their applause, said laconically, "Comrades, we shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order...
...also fought Czechs, English, Germans, French, Americans, Japanese, Letts, Mongols, Poles, on 14 fronts and for more than four years-fought with inadequate arms, starvation rations, an exhausted population. They signed with Germany a treaty as punishing as the Treaty of Versailles, lost a quarter of their manufactures. Said Lenin, "I would give up Petrograd for a breathing spell of 20 days." They fought the armies of Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, the troops of sadistic Baron Ungern von Sternberg near Mongolia. Astonishing as was their victory to the outside world, in view of the forces against them, it was more astonishing...
...Lenin, an economist, politician, agitator; Trotsky, an editor, strategist, orator; Radek, a journalist; Chicherin, son of an aristocratic family; Kamanev, a student of law; Rykov, Lenin's secretary; Zinoviev, a master of intrigue, a practical politician, "Lenin's greatest mistake"; Stalin, then 38, an editor; Bukharin, a dry, colorless theoretician; Lunacharsky, a dramatist; Dzerzhinsky, a politician-no group seemed so ill-equipped for the tasks before it as Russia's new leaders. All intellectuals, most of them hardened by years of exile and prison, they were masters of history who misread history, who banked on an international...
Four years before, a homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...