What did stalin say to lenin's wife

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Paris Peace Conference 184.02202/11

Memorandum by Mr. William C. Bullitt for the President and the Commissioners Plenipotentiary to Negotiate Peace

Economic Situation

Russia today is in a condition of acute economic distress. The blockade by land and sea is the cause of this distress and lack of the essentials of transportation is its gravest symptom. Only one fourth of the locomotives which ran on Russian lines before the war are now available for use. Furthermore, Soviet Russia is cut off entirely from all supplies of coal and gasoline. In consequence, transportation by all steam and electric vehicles is greatly hampered; and transportation by automobile and by the fleet of gasoline-using Volga steamers and canal boats is impossible. (Appendix Page 1075)

As a result of these hindrances to transportation it is possible to bring from the grain centres to Moscow only 25 carloads of food a day, instead of the 100 carloads which are essential, and to Petrograd only 15 carloads, instead of the essential 50. In consequence, every man, woman and child in Moscow and Petrograd is suff

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Sergei Prokofiev in 1918

Sergei Prokofiev, one of the greatest composers of Russia, would never forget that day after the Revolution. He left Russia with the official blessing and warning of the Soviet Minister Anatoly Lunacharsky: “You are running away from events, and these events will never forgive you when you return. You will not be understood.” But on that day in 1918, Lunacharsky also said: “You are a revolutionary in music, we are revolutionaries in life. We ought to work together. But if you want to go to America I shall not stand in your way.”

Then, who was Anatoly Lunacharsky, and why would he help Sergei Prokofiev?

Unlike many Soviet politicians, Anatoly Lunacharsky was the disciple of Lenin rather than his slave. He had become interested in Marxism at age 15, while studying at the gymnasium in Kiev. Subsequently, in 1895, Lunacharsky entered the University of Zurich to study philosophy and natural science. He devoted his energy to analysing works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and was greatly influenced by the idealistic views of the lecturer Rich

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Chapter One. Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter

Gérin, Annie. "Chapter One. Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter". Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, pp. 19-40. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487515324-006

Gérin, A. (2018). Chapter One. Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter. In Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s) (pp. 19-40). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487515324-006

Gérin, A. 2018. Chapter One. Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter. Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 19-40. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487515324-006

Gérin, Annie. "Chapter One. Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter" In Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s), 19-40. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. https://