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Punanen vaara ja elämäkerrallisia tietoja Leninistä

Isaac McBride · 1922

A 1922 Finnish booklet by Isaac McBride about Lenin's life and the Red danger. It presents Lenin from a hostile, anti-communist viewpoint.

A hostile 1922 account of Lenin written for Finnish readers, showing how he was portrayed by his critics abroad.

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Punanen vaara ja elämäkerrallisia tietoja LeninistäPDF · 64 pages
Isaac McBride, Punanen vaara ja elämäkerrallisia tietoja Leninistä, 1922. Published by Vapaus, Sudbury, Ontario. Digitized copy, Internet Archive.

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What it is

This is a Finnish booklet titled Punanen vaara ja elämäkerrallisia tietoja Leninistä, written by Isaac McBride and published in 1922 by Vapaus in Sudbury, Ontario. It was translated into Finnish by Aili I. Kannasto. The copy held here is part of the Varpu Lindström fonds and is restricted for teaching use. The version students see is a scanned PDF digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014, not the printed booklet itself.

Why it matters

McBride was an American who went to Soviet Russia and wrote about what he saw there. Works like this one were part of the wider debate about Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the early 1920s, and they reached Finnish-speaking readers in North America. The booklet shows how opponents of communism described Lenin, which is one view among many.

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  • What does McBride want the reader to fear or believe about Lenin and the Bolsheviks?
  • Which parts of the story are based on the author's own experience, and which are opinion?
  • Who would have read this booklet in 1922, and what might they have been looking for?

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