[78-L] Lenin Speaks

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> The lp just went for $95. Capitalism lives!  dl

The bidding is a hoot!  Someone was doing a live snipe and an earlier
bid kept topping him.  So he bids again and again and again and again
and finally time runs out.  

When I saw the picture I realized that it was the same one that was the
first Soviet LP I had.  I bought it in the early 70s when Dick Lenk took
me to the 4 Continents Bookstore in NYC -- which later became Victor
Kamkin's.  It is a pretty good transfer, no narration, and does not
suffer from that noise-gate I mentioned that ruined the late 80s CD/LP
issue.  I think my copy still has its $2.98 price tag, it probably sold
for half a rouble in the USSR if sold there.  This is an export pressing
you have since it says "Made in USSR" on label.  Quite possibly there
might be that same price inflation in today's Russia because although
there has been a big upsurge in reissue CDs of Soviet era recordings, I
have not seen any issue of the Lenin speeches nor of any of the other
Soviet leaders.  I have several dozen LPs of Soviet historical
recordings, the best being a box set of WW II recordings for the 40th
Anniv of the liberation.  There also is a 2-disc set narrated in English
of a tour of Lenin's Apartments In the Kremlin.  They gave that to me at
Toronto's Ukranska Kniga when they saw I was buying every one of their
spoken word records.  

Mikeski Bielsky  mbiel at mbiel.com