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Skilled laborers worked day and night to complete the jet black Lenin Tomb in Red Square, Moscow, in time for May Day celebrations...
...express my point of view in regard to it. Several of my friends among New York school men are following with great interest certain centers of communist influence which we have in New York. There is a school here which half-staffed its flag on the death of Lenin and which systematically prepares its disciples for teaching positions trine that democracy and capitalism are failures which can only be wiped out by bloody revolution. An assistant principal who is one of its pupils made the remark to me, "You mustn't object to revolution as a means of improving...
...Levine agrees with Sukhanov, whom he quotes, that Lenin was a genius. Although the man had "an extremely limited mental horizon", having made up his mind at the age of twenty-three to adhere to the Marxian principles, he was "uncommonly potent and prolitic within these limitations. He was a rare combination of a doctrinaire, a statesman, and a popular leader; he was both visionary and practical...
...Lenin was the founder and sole head of the Bolshevist Party, and through it he rose to a dictatorship of the largest state in Europe. Throughout his career, he was entirely without personal ambition; he worked and lived and died for his ideal. However we may regard the ideal, we must recognize the astounding force, the tremendous influence of the man, guided by that ideal, over the world...
...more laets are discovered about Lenin, more theories will be promulgated and many more volumes will be writen. He is, and will be, seen as a narrow-minded demagogue as well as an extraordinary leader and statesman; as a fiend incarnate as well as a glorious martyr. But a very faithful, impartial portait of the great revolutionist may be found in Mr. Levine's biography...