Poor, poor Ilich: Visualizing Lenins death for children
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Lenins death on 21 January 1924 proved to be a major upheaval in the public and private lives of Soviet citizens. In the wake of the civil war, with no precedent for the legitimate transfer of power in the post-revolutionary era, the death of the first Soviet leader could not but trouble the public. The trauma of Lenins demise had to be forged into a unifying public event, precisely because the publics reaction was both diverse and intense. On 24 January, a special report on the Ural region issued by the Joint State Political Directorate (the Soviet secret police organization
