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Was there one institution of the bourgeois intellectual world that Lenin regarded with awe and the rules of which he was unquestioningly ready to respect? Yes, there was: libraries and library regulations. ... If anything could reconcile him to London, that bastion of plutocracy and imperialism, it was the wonders of the library of the British Museum.

In 1920 the Chairman of the Council of the Commissars and virtual dictator of Russia wrote this humble letter to the Rumyantsev Public Library in Moscow: He understands that books are not lent out, but might he have just overnight two Greek dictionaries, and he promises to return them first thing in the morning? And practically on his deathbed he addressed an urgent note to Anna: a book lent out to him, again in the way of an exception, has disappeared and it is evidently her adopted son who took it. If so will he return it as soon as possible, for Lenin will be blamed!

- Adam Ulam, The Bolsheviks

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COR BLIMEY I TASTE LIKE TEA.

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( The Adventures of Jerry Parskhin In Time, Part 4 )