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496 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1992
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"He was like a thunder in the clear skies.Who needs facts when instead we can be treated to Vasieleva's presumptions of what her characters - real people from not-so-remote history! - must have thought and felt. In no way does she ever preface the passages with anything like: "...And Krupskaya may have thought...". Instead, she immediately, determinedly, without a second thought jumps straight into her subjects' inner monologues and motivations, as though she has any way of knowing that.
He was like lightning in the night.
He was like the strike of a bell.
He was...
Having seen and heard him [Lenin], Krupskaya immediately realized that the revolution was "close and possible"
