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| | World Policy Journal - Summer 2005 |
 | | Before delivering his anti-Stalin "secret speech," he is said to have confided to some of his comrades: "Now I can avenge my son, much like Vladimir Lenin punished Tsar Nicholas for his brother Alexander."11 (Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin's brother, was executed in 1887 for preparing an assassination attempt on Nicholas's father, Tsar Alexander III.) |
 | | In this fascinating encyclopedia fascinating in the sense that it reads as if we are still in the early 1980s, as if the postcommunist years never happened: of six pages dedicated to Nikita Khrushchev, only three deal with his long political career, while another three are devoted to the Leonid story. |
 | | Alexander Sherbakov, "Leonid Khrushchev ne byl predatelem" [Leonid Khrushchev was not a traitor], Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 27, 1998, p. |
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