Many of his tastes and preferences shaped during those years reflect those of the English aristocracy ... on the orders of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, amid fears the anti ...

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And here is how he writes it (“Another Epitaph for an Army of Mercenaries” from Second Hymn to Lenin, 1935): The rhythms of this poem are not attuned to ... Pearson “pleads guilty to a certain ...