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This article focuses on the book "Toward the Seizure of Power," by V.I. Lenin. The papers here collected were written by Lenin in the twelve weeks that passed between the rise of Kerensky in July 1917, and the Bolshevik revolution in November. Not all of Lenin's papers covering that period are here, for many political letters and newspaper notes are still to be discovered. "Toward the Seizure of Power," though it was not intended as such, is actually a revolutionist's handbook.

Focuses on the stability of the Soviet organization after the death of its premier V.L. Lenin. Information that there is apparently little expectation among either the friends or the enemies of the Soviet government that any change in it is impending in the near future; Claim that three years ago, or even, two, the death of Lenin would have thrown the Soviet émigrés and the western conservative press into a paroxysm of prophecy; Dissensions, within the Communist party, from which the Soviet government admittedly draws its chief active support; Claim that none of the important factions seeks to abandon the "New Economic Policy" of concessions to private trading.

The article sheds light on the life of the communist revolution leader Vladimir Llyich Lenin. In the rich Cossack stanitzas, in the villages where the landed old believers reigned supreme, among the rich sectarians, among all of the tales of Lenin were nourished with that hatred which only a great and strong enemy can inspire, a hatred which is more like an ecstasy of admiration. They seldom accused him of selfish motives. They created legends about him as about some being from a mystical, supernatural world. His name emerged from the village darkness, where the names of all others were choked in abysmal ignorance. Only his name blossomed, arid blossomed miraculously.

May 1, with all due respect, suggest that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, busy as he is, take a week's vacation from work and visitors to read Soviet leader V.I. Lenin. Perhaps U.S. General Lyndon B. Johnson should go off in another direction and do likewise. For with all the difference between the U.S. today and the Soviet Union which superseded the empire of Nicholas II, Lenin's advice to Soviet leader Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky in September 1, 1917, applies strikingly to the present situation in the United States.

The article reports on the warning given by Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vsevolod Sofinsky to Moscow-based Western correspondents regarding their reporting of the controversy over the book "The Gulag Archipelago," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Sofinsky asserts that foreign journalists who seek for information about dissenters such as Solzhenitsyn will only face various difficulties. It notes that the book has focused on the system of terror in Soviet Union during the rule of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

This article presents letters between Soviet leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Charles P. Steinmetz, consulting engineer of the General Electric Company at Schenectady. In his letter, Lenin thanks Steinmetz for his friendly letter of February 16, 1922. Lenin writes it is shameful that he heard Steinmetz's name for the first time only a few months ago from former chairman of State Commission for Elaborating a Plan for the Electrification of Russia, and now chairman of the General State Planning Committee.

The article discusses whether revolution is a way of social salvation or not. It is said that revolution was a great success for German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Russian Revolution leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin but not for others. German revolution was a good thing for those who got into the Nazi Party in time, but for those who supported the Italian labor uprisings in 1920-1921, revolution was a bad thing.

Focuses on the book "The State and Revolution," by Valdimir IIyich Lenin, a revolutionist of the Soviet Union. Views of the author on Marxian tradition; Opinion of the author on Lenin's greatness which according to him lies in his resolutions; Efforts on Lenin to resolve tensions and dilemmas in his own life and rise his social struggle; Information on the book "The State and Revolution"; Report on breaking of strength of Russian workers and peasants after 1905 revolution; Discussion of anti-war rally by Lenin; Information on the book "Imperialism," by Lenin; Effect on Lenin by betrayal of the Marxist tradition; Focus on several books related to economic theory; Report on a set of notebooks that Lenin called "Marxism and the State; Efforts of Lenin to collect materials on revolution for his book after the outbreak of war; Reaction of Lenin on March revolution in Russia; Description of Lenin's arrival at the Finland Station, in the biography by Ralph Fox; Delay by one year in the publishing of the book "The State and Revolution," due to press busy with more important work; Views of Lenin on his book; Information on the contents of the book; Report that the book was amply creative in its elements of synthesis, reinterpretation, and Marxian theory; Negligence of theory of the class struggle in the book; Emphasis by Lenin on the inevitability of the capture and destruction of the bourgeois state power by the proletariat; Views of Lenin on the commune as a political form that replaced parliamentary bureaucracy; Consideration of two principal features in his book by Lenin; Focus on the two considerations being dictatorship and democracy; Emphasis on national traditions; Discussion of reasoning of Lenin on the fulfillment of the promise of a democratic republic; Focus on analysis of the administrative machinery under socialism by Lenin; Importance of Lenin in the success of Russian Revolution.

The article focuses on the outlook for the Soviet Five-year Plan, which is an outgrowth of the New Economic Policy (NEP) adopted at Vladimir Ilich Lenin's instigation in March, 1921. The essential aims of the NEP from its inception are the industrialization of Russia and the subjection of the whole national economy to a coherent and unified evolutionary plan. The industrial progress realized under the Five-year Plan is examined, including details related to the burden of industrial expansion on the national budget and the inadequacies of the labor supply, labor efficiency and the quality of output.

Focuses on the economic and socio-political instable state of the Soviet Union during the present extended phase of revolution. Evaluation of effects of the revival of economic structure from capitalism to communistic; Discussion of current attempt to reconstruct a government along socialistic and communistic lines and its consequences; Reference of various international publications commenting on false state of political clarity;Discussion over problems resulted from the Soviet revolution; Criticism of the present position of peasants in the country; Information on industrial decline due to ineffective wage structure; Information on the cooperative movement in the agricultural and industrial sectors; Evaluation of governmental policies; Role of Joseph Stalin and his Communist party in the present path of industrialization; Analysis of views of Leon Trotsky, V.I. Lenin and other political giants of Soviet politics.

Reports on the annual meeting of the Second International in Europe. Reunion of organized working class movement; Translation of socialism into a practical program; Exercise of revolutionary attraction espoused by Russian leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

Comments on various economic and political issues. Demands of the organized labor for the reform of the system of profits in industry; Statement from Premier Vladimir Lenin regarding the peace offering of the Soviet government to the Allied people; Decision of Justice John V. McAvoy of the Supreme Court of New York to annul the charter of the Rand School of Social Science; Effort to pacify American sentiment with the interview given by Mexican President Venustiano Carranza to the "Associated Press."

Comments on various political issues. Significance and the probable consequences of the German retirement from the Marne; Disintegration in Germany and the Allied Powers with the German defensive strategy; Speculation about the preparedness of Turkey to withdraw from the German alliance; Publication of the political speech of Russian Premier Vladimir Lenin to the Executive Committee of the Soviets in the "New York Times"; Principle of self-determination by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

This article focuses on Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the Russian communist. "The Nation" is still eager for this great Russian laboratory to continue its experimenting, for people are yet of the belief that whether the soviets stay or go much good for all the world will come out of the undertaking. The steady recession of Lenin and his government from the extreme Communist position confirms you in your belief that precisely as the eighteenth-century French Revolution sloughed off its peculiar excesses, gradually progressed beyond its ruthless shedding of blood upon the guillotines that worked night and day, and abandoned its policy of exiling the propertied classes, so the twentieth-century Russian experiment is bound to become with time more pliable, less doctrinaire and extreme, far less violent, and, people trust, far more humane in practice as well as in ideal.

Reports on the historical significance of Russian revolutionist and the commissar of war under Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Leon Trotsky. Discussion on his various books like "A Well Written Book" or "In My Eyes" which chalk him out as a juggler of words; Focus on his literary side as in Siberia, the Soviet Union he wrote literary criticism, discussed writers like Henrik Ibsen, Gerhart Hauptmann, Guy De Maupassant, and Friedrich Nietzsche; Indignation over injustice triggered Trotsky and compelled him to participate in the cultural revolution of the Soviet Union; View of the author that in his own imagination Trotsky lived as the protagonist of Marxism.

Focuses on modern tactics of insurrection employed by Bolshevik leader Leon Trotzky. Description of the Bolshevik revolution headed by Communist leaders Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Leon Trotzky; Plan devised by Trotzky that envisaged concentration upon a narrower zone by a small minority, trained for insurrectionary tactics; Description of the toppling of the Social Democratic government of Russia by the revolutionaries; Information on the creation of a new tradition of revolution in the pattern of the Bolshevist coup d'etat.

Thirty-eight years ago a May Day appeal written by Nicolai Lenin, then in prison, was distributed to 2,000 workers in 40 Saint Petersburg factories. "It is time," read the appeal, "that we Russian workers smashed the chains that the bosses and the government have placed upon us. It is time that we joined our fellow-workers of other lands in the struggle-under a common flag bearing the words—Workers of all countries, unite!" "Let us wish our brothers," he said, "that their struggle soon lead to the desired goal, to a society in which there will be no masters and no slaves, no capitalists and no wage workers, but all will work together and all will enjoy the good things of life together."

Contrasts the political and social influences of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and Russian communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin over the Western civilization after their deaths. Details of their deaths; Impression of Russian people on Lenin; Significant contributions of Wilson to the history of the U.S.

Comments on several political issues from around the world as of May 1970. Results of primaries in Ohio and Texas for the senatorial elections; Decision of the Supreme Court on a New York State law that exempts property used for religious purposes from real estate taxes; Statement issued by United Nations Secretary General U Thant on Vladimir Lenin; Completion of a military exercise by the Soviet Navy and Air Force.

This article presents information on books about Vladimir Ilich Lenin. The books are "Lenin, Red Dictator," by George Vernadsky; "Lenin," by D. S. Mirsky and "Lenin. God of the Godless," by Ferdinand A. Ossendowski. It is the stupendousness of Lenin's conception that increases his stature a thousand-fold. Ossendowski and Vernadsky have no eyes for such perspectives. Only Mirsky suspects them. Mirsky attempts no estimate of Lenin's human qualities. Ossendowski writes pure fiction. Vernadsky has just facts.

In the literature and folklore published in Soviet Russia, the figure of Vladimir Ilich Lenin has been gradually assuming legendary proportions. The proletarian poetaster and the Communist Party member, the Ukrainian soil-tiller and Archangel fisherman, the Siberian nomad and the Caucasian mountaineer have all contributed toward the creation of an image of a mighty giant, an epic hero. Many elements have entered into the creation of this legend. Besides the actual, authentic personality of Lenin, there has been, of course, the ever-present urge of people to find fulfillment in myths and legends, in saints and heroes, and the deliberate encouragement of this urge by the most influential and articulate group in Russia, the Communist Party.

The article is from a series of reminiscences of Nikolai Lenin published in the Neue Rundschau. The author states that to him Lenin is the hero of a legend, a man who had torn the burning heart out of his breast in order to light up for mankind the path which shall lead it out of the shameful chaos of the present, out of the rotting bog of stupid current politics. His hero-character has almost no outward adornment. His heroism is of a type not rare in Soviet Union--the modest, ascetic martyrdom of an honorable, intellectual revolutionary who honestly believes in the possibility of justice on earth; the heroism of a man who has renounced all the pleasures of life to do hard work for the happiness of mankind.

Few men in our time have lived so fortunately and died so triumphantly as Russian leader of communist revolution Vladimir Lenin. No man in all history has been so widely and so affectionately mourned. For never till modern times have conditions existed in which one man could touch so intimately the lives of tens of millions. To the peasants of the greatest stretch of farming country on earth he is known as the ruler who gave them at last their land. To the city workers of Russia he is the comrade who gave them dominion over government and industry.

For the time being the dictatorship of Fascism is established in Italy. Parliament has become the obedient servant of a man who claims to have a nation behind him, but who has, in fact, a group of 300,000 men to support him, yet this group is well armed, well organized, possesses artillery, sappers, hand-grenades, all the requisites of a modern army. Russian communist leader Vladmir Ilich Lenin and Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun, have done the same, they have established a dictatorship with the help of arms, sweeping away democratic representation. Recent elections, including the last English elections, show that the existing electoral systems are often obsolete and by no means perfect, yet surely parliamentary representation comes nearest to expressing the popular feeling and the political atmosphere of a country.

This article focuses on the letter written by Vladimir Ilich Lenin to the Italian socialists. In this letter Lenin expresses his attitude toward the revolutionary movement in Italy and towards the impending split in the Socialist Party. The letter as follows: "Let us stop at this point to examine more particularly the principal questions put by the Italian socialist. socialists fears the split because, according to him, it would break up the party, and particularly the unions, cooperatives, and municipalities. Italian socialists chief concern is this: These institutions must not be destroyed since they are indispensable for the building up of socialism."

This article presents a reply to the letter of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, leader of Soviet Union by Giacinto Serrati. The letter as follows: "I already told you at the Congress of Moscow, in a general address, how difficult and painful it is for a modest comrade like myself and like a large number of the delegates at the Congress, to enter into discussion with you. Difficult, because you who willed and made the Revolution and defend it with firmness and sagacity against a world of enemies, are surrounded by the most potent sources of information."

This article presents information on the book "British Agent," by R.H. Bruce Lockhart. Most people surround governments with awe or mystery and therefore like to know what goes on behind the scenes. The author thinks, this explains the popularity of Lockhart's book. The writing is good but not distinguished, and from the historical point of view there is scarcely a shred of new information. It is opined that Lockhart, in spite of being in touch with colonel Raymond Robins and Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union, during the first half of 1918, does not throw much light into their character or policies.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics. Opinion of a reader that it is unnecessary to contribute to a campaign fund as suggested in the journal; Information that many articles have appeared which are strongly pro-Soviet in character; Suggestion that in each case where a criminal is arrested there be published, instead of his personal paraphernelia, a picture of the room in the tenement in which he was born; Request by a reader that he be given a space in the columns of the journal to tell his political friends in America that the money paid for his article quoting Russian political leader, Vladimir Iyich Lenin's testament was not appropriated by him.

The immediate policies of the Soviet Government, following the death of Vladimir Lenin, are revealed in the statement by the new chairman of the Council of Peoples' Commissars, A. I. Rykov, published in Moscow "Izvestia," on February 9. A great number of correspondents, both Russian and foreign have wanted to interview him on the subject of the election to the post of chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the immediate problems of the foreign and internal policies of Soviet Union.

Focuses on the anti-Americanism and pro-Communist views presented at the Asian-African Peoples Solidarity Conference in Cairo, Egypt. Pledge of Soviet aid to Chinese Communists by Sharaf R. Reshidov, president of the Supreme Parliament of the Uzbek Republic; Features of the Far Eastern policy of communist advocate Nicolai Lenin.