[78-L] Lenin Speaks [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

Steve,  Thanks for sharing.  Lenin is said to have been an impressive orator. but if the records are anything to go by, he needed an audience.  I guess you had to be there.
 
Trotsky also had a reputation as an outstanding speaker.  Pearl once issued a redording of a speech in heavily accented English, whic was distincly unimpresive.  No doub he was better in Russian; but the same strictures probaby apply....
 
Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Fri, 12/16/11, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Lenin Speaks
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, December 16, 2011, 10:28 PM


Thanks..this gave me the title of all the speeches on the lp. The only one 
listed here and not on the disc is (wouldn't you know it) Anti-Jewish Pogroms.

The lp 16693/4 consists of the following:

1.  In Memory of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, Chairman of the 
All-Russia Central Executive Committee
2.  The Third, Communist International
3.  Communication On The Wireless Negotiations With Béla Kun
4.  An Appeal to the Red Army
5.  What Is Soviet Power?
6.  How the Working People Can Be Saved From the Oppression of the Landowners 
and Capitalists For Ever
7.  The task of restoring the transport systems
8.  On labour discipline

dl

On 12/16/2011 5:10 PM, Steve Shapiro wrote:
> You can go to this website, read these speeches in Russian or English, or download mp3s for your enjoyment, education, and political guidance:
>
> http://www.marxists.org/romana/audio/index.htm
>
> Like most 78s of speeches, I doubt whether such records get much wear, unless they are played over and over to indoctrinate someone in the correct path.  I would think that for most people, one listen would be more than enough.
>
> A friend of mine, a refugee, picked up the complete set of 4 records - perhaps 2 or 3 are the original issues and the other(s) are likely first reissues from 1923.   These are thicker records of the time with labels most people will only see on some website or in a book.  My friend's records are for sale, but for very big bucks.
>
> Another friend, who used to be on this list, told me that most reissues of these speeches - later 78s, lps, cds, etc. - are dubs, with the usual loss of sound quality.  For those who have the lp or cd, how "true" does the sound quality seem?
>
> There is a story that the speeches were recorded for the Soviet government by a German engineer.  There was something about full payment not being given, so some masters stayed with the engineer and some of the recorded speeches were never issued and are probably lost.  I am unclear whether the original, issued records might have been pressed by Beka or Odeon, maybe in Germany?
>
> If someone wants to buy my friend's records and is prepared to pay the price, I will help broker the deal./steve
> _________________________________________________________

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