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Lenin Revered in Soviet Culture Amid Schisms and Revisionism
A special correspondent surveys April centennial celebrations of Vladimir Lenin's birth showing operas, cantatas, novels, and pilgrimages that elevate Lenin as a spiritual figure. It notes ongoing religious fervor, state production, and disputes with Chinese Leninists over interpretation and revisionism.
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Soviet Communist Party
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Shchedrin
World Proletariat
International Communist Movement