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1: Lenin - Founding Father
What does Lenin mean to today's Soviet citizens? Why are less than 6% of them members of the Communist Party which he established?
Taking the recent centenary celebrations of Lenin's birth as a starting point. PETER FRANK of Essex University looks at the political background to the lives of ordinary Soviet citizens by showing why they belong to a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
With contributions from Russians themselves as well as from British sovietologists, he explains why Soviet communists belong to a socialist state, how the Communist Party governs through the people's Soviets, and how a peasant in Asian Azerbaidzhan can also be ' a new Soviet man.'
Produced by HUGH PURCELL

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Peter Frank
Produced By:
Hugh Purcell
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