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07.10.2004 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I shall make no attempt here to write yet another biography of Lenin; for that there is no lack of other sources. I shall only refer to what I know of him from our personal relations and to my own direct impressions of the man. I first heard of Lenin from Axelrod after the publication of a book written by ...
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07.10.2004 - Leon Trotsky, Soviet War Lord
Minister of war, Leon Trotsky, has no prototype in history. Therefore, he cannot be compared, he can only be contrasted. He is without question the most dramatic character produced during the whole sweep of the Russian revolution and its only great organizer. No man will overshadow his eminence in the history ...
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07.10.2004 - Profile: Roman Abramovich
The beginnings of Roman Abramovich’s life do not reflect his present position. His Mother died when he was one and a half. Only two and a half years later, when he was now four, he lost his father in a construction accident. Without either of his parents to care for him it fell to his father’s brother to look ...
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07.10.2004 - Peter the Great and the Rise of Russia, 1682-1725
Bishop Burnet, Peter the Great 1698 I mentioned in the relation of the former year [1698] the Tsar’s coming out of his own country; on which I will now enlarge. He came this winter over to England and stayed some months among us. I waited often on him, and was ordered by both the king and the archbishops and ...
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