>Comrades:
>
>I was recently asked whether the remark supposedly made by Lenin - namely,
>that if he had had 10 Francis of Assisis, there would have been no need of
>a Russian Revolution to improve life in Russia - is apocryphal or
>historically verifiable. Does anyone have a text to cite - or even a
>passage from a biography (or even a hagiography!) of Lenin - to which I
>might direct my inquisitive questioner???
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael Cusato, O.F.M.
My colleague in Soviet history, who sits across the hall from my office,
says the remark sounds highly dubious to him. Nor has he ever run across
it in any Russian hagiography of Lenin.
laura smoller
Laura Smoller
Department of History
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 South University Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
tel 501-569-8389
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