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The man in the bath-chair at the Gorki sanatorium waited eagerly for news about the Party Conference. Nadezhda Krupskaya trembled about his potential reaction and fed him as little information as she could. She reassured him by saying that the Conference’s final resolution had been passed by an overwhelming majority.1 This was true, but deliberately misleading since it concealed the savagery of the debates. Furthermore, a veil was drawn over the beginning of a contest among the Politburo members which had been feared by Lenin since December 1922. Krupskaya’s deceit stemmed from humane motives: the full truth would undoubtedly have upset him deeply.
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N. K. Krupskaya, ‘Poslednie polgoda zhizni Vladimira II’icha’, ITsKKPSS, no. 4, 1989, p. 174.
V. D. Bonch-Bruevich, Vospominaniya o Lenine(Moscow, 1965), p. 435.
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Service, R. (1995). Epilogue. In: Lenin: A Political Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05594-4_11
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