Michael Lynch February 2011

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Historian Dr Michael Lynch came to JAGS to give a lecture on "Russia: Continuity and Change between 1905 and 1949", for sixth form students studying the conservatism and the radicalism of those years. He led us into the minds of Lenin and Stalin and linked Marxism to the Messiah, the Tsar to the Dictator and the Russian Army pre-1914 to the KGB. It was an action-packed, revelatory lecture that told of a philosophy foreign to the English mind. It is thanks to him that we now understand from where originated the natural ruthlessness of the Soviet System, necessary to fulfil the prophecy of a different god (namely, in this case, Karl Marx), and that the doors of another world have become open to us.

Sophia Lambton, Y13