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Revolutionary material, regularly reordered (5)

Ross

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lenin

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(Other definitions for lenin that I've seen before include "Marxist theoretician" , "Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov" , "First leader of USSR" , "Vladimir Ilyich -, Soviet premier" , "Leader of the Russian Revolution" .)

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