On Our Way to See Lenin

Abstract

The periodical Bolshevik—later, Kommunist—may truly be called a Party warrior of the Lenin levy. Its publication was decided upon in those November days of 1923 when there was still some hope of Lenin's recovery in Gor'ki. But in the spring, when the first issue appeared, the dark grey cube of the first mausoleum had already been erected on Red Square. Bolshevik joined the ranks of the revolution in those days when, overcoming the pain of an irretrievable loss, the Communist Party forged all that was honest and solid in working people into a single monolith for a selfless struggle for the realization of Lenin's ideas.