Lenin/SPGB crossover
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Howdy! Thought you guys might like to know this fascinating gem of obscurantist history. Just been reading Robert Henderson’s “The Spark That Lit the Revolution” about Lenin in London. It’s nfg generally but it’s got quite a bit of new dope. One of the snippets is that the seventh meeting of the Third Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Lenin’s bunch) was held on 4th May 1905 at the Hope Coffee Tavern, 112 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park. Two years earlier, this was the venue of the meeting of the London Impossibilists at which they decided not to join the new Socialist Labour Party. The SLP turned de Leonist and then pretty much Leninist so that’s just as well really. Lenin’s boys wanted to continue to use the coffee house but it was prebooked by another. I believe it was later used as the local SPGB meeting place, so it’s possible that SPGBers inadvertently blocked Lenin’s plans. Which would be a first. – keefs
This historian indicates that Lenin visited and lived in London on several occasions with his wife and by himself too
This article from DSA almost mentions Henderson.
https://jacobin.com/2020/04/vladimir-lenin-150-birthday-spark-lit-revolution-london
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/16/russians-in-london-lenin/. This historian also mentions Lenin’s life in London
A bit of fun with regards to Lenin in London.
From the 1974 British TV series, Fall of Eagles, Trevor Griffiths episode, Absolute Beginners, about the Russian revolutionaries in London at the turn of the 20th century. Patrick Stewart as Lenin, Michael Kitchen as Trotsky and Paul Eddington as Plekhanov.
For those of you who don’t know him, Trevor Griffiths is best known for co-writing the Hollywood film, Reds, with Warren Beatty.
Lenin lived in Paris for several years. Paris was a city that had many Russian exiles from different political tendencies
https://lithub.com/lenin-in-paris-when-the-city-was-a-refuge-for-russian-artists-and-dissidents/.This novel was published a couple of years ago:
Can anyone top that? I’ll doff my cap if someone provides proof of a concept album centred around Nadezhda Krupskaya’s three weeks in Kettering in 1911.
Lumme lawks, mister 1904. you’re on an obscuro roll today. Is that a novel or an actual book though? Looks like it’s nonfiction to me. It’s a bit unnecessary because Leon was such a selfobsessed goit that he’s left minute descriptions of every shit he took throughout his life. “Chapter 5: My New York bowel movements.”
He kind of had to be selfobsessed because no one else even remembered who he was. When they came to London, everyone remembered Lenin as “that intense guy” and Stalin as “that polite guy”(!). Trotsky was “…”
Leninists, Trotskyists and Historians want to negate the participation of Joseph Stalin in the publication and distribution of Iskra newspaper inside Russia, as well they do not mentioning that several articles written by Lenin were not published by Stalin. Those facts were also mentioned in this forum by Alan Johnston when he was the moderator of this forum. Stalin joined the Bolsheviks in 1903, several years before Leon Trotsky
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