Louis Fischer
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Louis Fischer was an American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-communist treatise The God that Failed, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gan
Fischer in 1944
Cover New Outlook (1949)
Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1
Louis Fischer
…treatise The God that Failed (1949), The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Award in History and Biography. Louis Fischer, the son of a fish peddler, was born in Philadelphia on 29 February…
Lenin in 1920
Lenin (left) at the age of three with his sister, Olga
Lenin was influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Police mugshot of Vladimir Lenin, 1895