The Inheritors

Warnings from a stage Lenin

As the play opens, a balding man walks pensively to a desk in a dimly lit study. He has come to retrieve a red folder containing his will. But as Muscovites who have been flocking to the new production soon discover, Thus We Will Win is no routine story of squabbling heirs. The character at center stage is Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state; the document he seeks is a political testament in which he warns his colleagues of future perils to the Communist Party.

Written by Dramatist. Mikhail...

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