"Two days before he died I read him a story by Jack London -- the book is lying now on the table in his room -- Love of Life. This is a powerful story...Ilyich (Lenin) was carried away by this story. Next day he asked me to read another London story. However, with Jack London the powerful is mixed with the exceedingly weak. The second story was altogether different -- one that preached [a] bourgeois moral: the captain of a ship promises the owner that he will sell the cargo of grain at a good price; he sacrifices his life in order to keep his word. Ilyich laughed and waved his hand."
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Nadezhda Krupskaya "Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives" (1956)
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Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 β November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
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