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...meeting, then asked a question. He said: 'I have followed the Revolution from the beginning, but cannot understand one thing. Will you please tell me why it is that for many years after the Revolution I never heard of Joseph Stalin? In those days it was all Lenin and Trotzky...
...puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...
Majeatic: "Three Songs About Lenin...
Most significant of all Mr. Sheean's descriptions and comments are those on the Kuomintang, and the attempted Communist Revolutions in China between 1927 and 1930. The figure of Borodin looms large as the greatest man, to Sheean's mind, in the whole decade, Lenin excepted. Then there are Mme. Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the Chinese hero, Eugene Chen, and the fiery, red-haired Rayna Prohme, all of whom Sheean knew with varying degrees of intimacy. Their failure to put through the revolution Sheean ascribes to the strength of foreign imperialism, British and American in particular...
Majestic: "Three Songs About Lenin...