A Remarkable Figure in Recent Ruseian Politics: Leader of Communiat Party London, Jan, 29, The Russiun Po "Agency Lenin died suddenly in Moscow yesterday.
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A Soviet communique says that AM. Lenin died at' the hills near Moscow. His health had necentferably improved,—but worse yesterday evening. Ho lost consciousness and died paralysis of the respiratory centres.
The All-Russian Congress of Soviets is now sitting in Moscow to take the mevcssary decisions: to continue M. Lonin's "The. Soviet Govornmout, stands firm at its poet, the conquests of the proletarian revelation."
Lenin's body will Jie in state in Moscow lott the funeral, which will take place on January Paris, Jan, 23.
The autopsy on M, Lenin proved that he succumbed to cerebral -hemorhago. M. Zinovielf determination to Lenin's work, fatin"
addressed by M. vieff to French Communists the subject of the "forthcoming electoral campaign and recom: mends this text to the attention of the American Senate, which opening an inquiry, into Bolshe Wot activities, "M.~ Zinovioll de. clares that "it ig not. by Parliament that Sociatiam can be stituted, as the leaders of the British' Labour Party imagine but by the overthrow of the bourgeois state, including Parliament." Fortunately, the journal adds, M. Zinoviell's predict. ong will not readily be, realized in France.
The Italian newspapers, commenting on the death of M. Lenin, emphasize that he saw before his death the ruin of revolutionary hopes beyond: the Russian frontiers, The solid and healthy organisms of the great nations of the West, the "Corriere Italiano" writes, have resisted the threaten. ing Muscovite cpidemie.—French Wireless through Router.
The late M. Vladimir Rich Lenin (originally Oulianov), the Russian Communist leader, was born in 1870 at Simbirsk, where his father held an official position us district inspector of schools. Tu 1887 his elder brother Alexander was hanged for being concerned in a plot to assassinate Emperor Alexander TIT, M. Lenin entered the University of Kazan og a, student, of Inw, but was expelled for taking part in revolutionary agitation, Later ho went to St. " Petersburg and passed his Bar examination there, did not practise Inw for long, however, but, joined a.
ization of profession-revolutionists, In Tate In the meantime hie had joined the Social Democratic movement, which in those days was spreading widely in Russin Struvo and Plekhanov wore ut thab time th chief exponents of Marxism, in which schema the rise and the growth of capitalism wag considered to ho a necessary preliminary to social revolution, and it wae thought was not yet ripe for social thab Russia
heaval," Lenin "wae in' agreement with these views for some time, but while Struve and Plekhanov were Induced to. seek an alliance with Liberal intellectuals in them struggle against Tsarism, Lenin and others forsook the Liberal platform and strove for a violent outbreak of downright class war. his produced a split in the ranks fof Social Democracy in 1903 and fat the Third Congress in 1905 it led to the formation of twa jparties—the Bolsheviks meeting in London and the Monshoviks in Geneva, The revolution of 1905. saw Lenin again in St. Petersburg, hut he did not play any part. the Soviet of workmen' and. dis-wed when it became clear to him that thie troops and people were not on the side of the 7 volutionists, Duringe his second Atay abroad (1900-17) he publish: ed several pamphlets and. book in which he announere that terror ism was inovithble 2s n weapon the hards of revolutionists and heaped abuse on idol tio philosophers "and religions teachers of all schools and creeds.
When the World War brought about the _long-expected heaval of European society, Lenin was one of the leading" spirit of te ionmarnald and Kionthal meetings, and urged a general. Tevolilien of the worlonent ofall countries against. the way, but felt that ithe social eatastrophy would be mest likely to break out in Russia as being the worst governed "and least civilized sountey. Therefore he upheld the full extent of his influence the eausr of Germany against the Entente, He and Asse.
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