LENIN'S SUCCESSOR AND "RUSSIA'S SAVIOUR"? (1923 public opinion in Soviet Russia and Russian society abroad in the expectation of a new "national leader" )
The given article examines the public opinion in Soviet Russia and Russian society abroad at one of the most important crucial moment of our Motherland's history at the edge of 1922 1924, when the leader of Russian Bolshevik revolution V.I. Lenin became excluded out of politics because of his progressing illness and whose close and inevitable death gave rise to different forecasts, hopes and expectations connected with sup positions concerning Lenin's political successor. The article is based on archive (including not published) doc uments and memoir historic sources