The Indianapolis times., 1924-01-22
LEN|N, RUSSIAN
LEADER, is DEAD
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the leaders Of the less radical order
OF things in Russia.
Official Statement Issued
The official bulletin Issued by the
physicians said:
"Nickolai Lenin's condition took ar
unexpected turn for the worse Jan. 21
HE became unconscious and his
respiration was accompanied by con
vulsive movements OF the body.
AT $50 p. m. Lenin died OF para
lytio symptoms OF the respiratory
organs
The official announcement said:
"Lenins condition had improved
immensely and propects were most
hopeful"
The body Will be brought to Moscow
Wednesday and will lie ia state until
Saturday
In death, Lenin is to be made accesi-
bic to all those who followed him and
who could not be with him in his
illness.
An official statement issued by the
Russian government said the soviet
government will continue to carry out
the win Of the workers and peasants,
in accordance with Lenin's last wishes
Ordinary Partial Paralysis
Professor Kramer. a German trained
Russian specialist. diagnosed Lenin's 5
illness as ordinary partial paralysis,
and decreed absolute rest and quiet for
him.
Owing to the chieftain's popularity
soviet officials always were careful In
information they gave about him and
the exact nature OF his illness never
was made public. 1t was known,
however. that his sister and wife were
in constant attendance upon him.
Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, has been
known as an extreme communist She
was 8 convict In Siberia when she
married him.
Nickolai Lenin, the $50 a week pre-
mier who ushered in the dictatorship
Of the proletariat nearly six years ago,
had been in failing health for many
months.
Lived Away From Kremlin.
Lenln was forced to live away from
the Kremlin, erstwhile citadel of the
czars. whence he had directed the des.
t.nies Of the new Russia.
Lenin. when he was II, saw the
corpse of his older brother, Alexander,
sw ng from the cars gibbet-exe-
cuted because he participated In a plot
to take the rulers life. The boy also
saw the cossacks suppress MS people
with the rule of the VIII. p and sword
1t was the death Of his brother that
caused Vlad mir Illyitch Ulysnov, the
real name of the man who later made
history under the pseudonym Of n ck-
olaf Len4n, to swear eternal enm-ty
against the ancient order.
Son Of School Master
Lenin, born April 10. 1870 at Sim.
birsk, on the Volga, was the son of
g school master of noble blood who be-
gan to train his son at an early age.
He attended the gymnasium" (high
school of his native village. the mas
ter OF which was Fedor Kerensky.
Little did the school master think the
quiet son of the Ulyanov family would
some day overthrow his own son,
Alexander Kerensky, destined to be-
come the minister president of the
provisional government after downfall
of Nicholas II.
While at school Lenin became an
ardent student and admirer OF Karl
Marx, German socialist. Although he
identified himself with the Russian
revolutionary movement at an early
age, he prepared for intellectual lead
ership and, so far as is known, never
took part in terrorism plots.
Expelled From University
Lenin was expelled from the Univer.
sity OF Kazar for preaching Socialism.
The future communist leader, while at
tending the university OF Petersburg
where he studied law, published a
treaty on Marxism called THE De
velopment of Capitalism" which estab-
lished him as an authority on the sub
jest.
In 1897 the czar banished Lenin to
Siberia where he spent the next three
years in study and preaching, through
his fascile pen, the gospel Of revolu-
ton. Released in 1900 he spent the
most Of his time-until 1917-outside
of Russia, carrying on revolutionary
propaganda
Lenin was in Switzerland in April
1917, when the Russian people threw
off the yoke of czarism. The German
government permitted Lenin and 100
other revolutionists to pass through
the country to Russia. This led to
charges Lenin was a paid agent of
Germany.
Conn Came in 1917
Lenin's coup. which brought him in
to power, came on Nov. Z, 1917, when
the government OF Alexander Keren-
sky, Observation-Disclosures OF the provi-
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