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Hypothetical questions proliferate about all great historical personages. What religion would have dominated Europe if Saul, the son of a tent-maker, had not taken the road to Damascus? Or what would have become of Christanity if Charles Martel had not defeated the previously invincible Moors at Poitiers? Would a Second World War have been prevented if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated? A question of the same order arises in connection with Lenin: would the history of the USSR have been greatly different if premature illness had not ended his life?
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V. Osipov, ‘Bolezn’ i smert’ V. I. Lenina’, Ogonyok, no. 4, 1990.
See E. H. Carr, The Interregnum,1923–1924 (London, 1954), pp. 290–1.
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Service, R. (1995). Deaths and Entrances. In: Lenin: A Political Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05594-4_10
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