Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-01-22
HEAD OF RUSSIA
REVOLUTIONARY
POWERS IS dead
Years OF Revolution and
Bloodshed Follow Effort to
Establish World Wide
Communism

MOSCOW. Jan. 22-Nicolai Lenine.
premier Of soviet Russia. is dead.
The end came al $50 . ID Monday
afternoon but the death was not an
nounced for some time afterward
Lenine'S death occurred IA his country
villa near Moscow where he had been
living IN retirement II came after a
sudden turn for the worse eliminating
in stroke which paralyzed his reSpir
at0ry organism
Announcement of his death was made
by the all-Russian soviet this morning
News of his death. while not umrx
pected 10 those who had been loScsi 10
him in the soviet @ounselS. came uncx-
pectedly az this time to the great ma
JOrlty as the most recent reports had
been that he was Con>i ierably improved
in health. While there has been con
finuous anxiety for his condition sinre
he WIS stricken in June. l.'-,2. public
attention has lately been more directed
20 the differences among the communist
party leaders and particularly 20 the
status &C Leon Trotzky. who. II was re-
Gently announ ed was in poor health AMI
had gone away for rest.
Little has been said publicly ia soviet
official quarters lately Of Lenine's coudi
tion bat that little seemed 70 be of a
hopeful nature and il was not long ago
that some Of the associates of his active
days were predicting that he would soon
BE- able TO advise with the council Of
ministers.
Representatives. III foreign diplomatic
missions and others with whom the cor
respondent talked after the announce
mert agreed III expressing the opinion
that Lcnine'S death would probably pro
ducc no general diSquict in Russia. but
nevertheless would have an important
political effect. So long as he was
alive although not actively participating
in the government was Al least its
titular head and his death now opens the
position 70 other leaders.
Nicolai Lenine. lawyer. pamphlctccr,
and finally Dictator of all Russia. was
the organizer and ,hief cNponcn, of the
movement which became known ~ l,ul-
sheviSm. and whil h he characterized aS
the great experiment. the Dictatorship
az the rrolciariat.
The career Of this short. plump. bald
headed little man. VIII" turned Russia
tHp~A thiNA liNNdHtt N~ HiA'H A"
flucnccd the other nations Of the world
~ any other man Of his century. Was full
OF adventure from bis bus hood. lie WAS
a rrvolutiun>i AZ school at the academy.
OF his university. and ever aficrwari
I.eninc's real name was Vladimir
Hitch liaaoff. lie was horn April -.
1870 ia the town Of Simbirsk. Of bour
geoi> family with pronounced Tartor
strain. rcfle' ted in I.enne's high cheek
bones and >s.ghily slaniimg. cynical eyes
His father w.5S responsible master at "A
communal ; hool AT Simbrsk aud was
very well known among the srhoo teach
ers II his district Ienimr himself at-
tendcd the high school al Simhifsk. and
by strange coincidence h~ principal
WAS the father 81 Alexander kcrenSky.
whom i.rnne aftcrMard oNcrthrcM 20
yberomc Premier 81 RUSSIA
Ieninc himself never was Il member
of any tcrrori~iic organization but q
desire ~ atrnsr hiS hro;hrr~ death IN
said to have ruled his lIic Ills tive
revolutionary work began I'D the carl
Hu'S. when hr cniereI the I niycrsltN ~
kazan. from which he was expelled
one month later fer participating IN NJ
students revolutionary movement Then
he moved Ia icir0srad attended the UNI
versity. and studied for lawyers degree.
In 1901 Icnne finished hi> term 81
deportation IN Siberia and cmiSrated TO
Swiizcrland. where. together with two uf
his friends. Martoif and i'iakhanuff. ~
published new >paper .cn;iflcd The
Spark. devoted 10 revolutionary prora
ganda in Russia. lie Nandrrcd from
Switz"rlanl Z" Germany. 10 England ami
90 Fran =. cking ont a simple existence
by journalistic efforts. or was supported
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