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When Russia expelled its intellectuals, freethinkers.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20070923
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Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The 20th century had more than its share of ruthless despots, but it's a pretty good bet that Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, better known by his soubriquet Lenin, will always have a place near the top of any list of them. When the writer Maxim Gorky, himself a supporter of the Bolsheviks, went to plead with Lenin for the life of one of the Romanov Grand Dukes, who were then being shot en masse on the grounds that he was a fine historian, Russia's new ruler told him that the revolution had no need of historians.

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