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Lenin Part 2: Underground, On the Run

Real Dictators

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Lenin's Bolsheviks Are a Minority Movement

In May 1912, Lenin permits the Bolsheviks to field candidates at elections for the first time. The seven Bolsheviks who win seats in the Dume need a leader and appoints Roman Malinowski. But by 1914, Malinowski is proving troublesome to his handlers in the secret police. He's been making incendiary anti-sarist speeches in Parliament that divert Communist suspicion away from himself. A gun fired not at the Tsar, but at another European royal will change the terms of the game.

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