[78-L] Lenin Speaks

[David Lennick]

Wonder why there was no non-cyrillic printing anywhere on it, if it was for 
export? I remember Ukranska Kniga well..all their stock ended up at Peter 
Dunn's Vinyl Museum, and when that store closed it went into storage and was 
finally sold for arrears and I saw it again at a flea market in Whitby last 
year. Stuff was 4 for a buck by that time and then I think it got dumped yet again.

Lenski

On 1/5/2012 3:52 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
>