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The International Lenin School - DCU

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Who? Its students<br />

• members of communist parties with leadership qualities<br />

• 2500-3000 from 1926 to 1938<br />

• criteria: age, background, party experience, etc<br />

• primarily single males under 35<br />

• organised into groups who spoke Russian, English,<br />

French, German, later other languages<br />

• known through pseudonyms<br />

• also members of CPSU & active in Comintern<br />

• called ‘little <strong>Lenin</strong>s’ by Larkin<br />

• called ‘strangers in their own land’ on return to NZ

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