An Interview With Lenin | W.T. Goode | Guardian | 21st May 2011
From the Manchester Guardian of 21st October 1919. “He is a man of middle height, about fifty years old, active, and well proportioned. His features at first sight seem to have a slight Chinese cast. The head is well domed, and his brow broad and well raised. He has a pleasant expression in talking, and indeed his manner can be described as distinctly prepossessing. Here was a master of himself and of his subject, expressing himself with a lucidity that was as startling as it was refreshing”