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Lenin Part 2: Underground, On the Run

Real Dictators

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The Story of Ineser Amonde

Ineser Amonde was born in Paris, then raised in the French Quarter of Moscow. At 19 she fell for Alexander Amonde, the son of a wealthy industrialist. She married and had four children in quick succession. But Ineser was a restless spirit taking herself to various study groups. As with Nadja all those years before, Lenin's lover fare with Ineser is a slow burner. Some 18 months after their first meeting, things get physical.Lenin soon gets Ineser translating documents and attending meetings as his proxy. Eventually, she heads up the Bolsheviks International Bureau and is made the Bolshevik delegate to the French Socialist Party.

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