It begins with an Associated Press newswire from “Soviet officials here today claimed they have performed a medical feat of sensational the resurrection of Russian revolutionary leader V. I. Lenin. ” President Reagan takes the news skeptically, as do medical scientists at Johns Hopkins and Stanford and the University of Chicago. Billy Graham calls the announcement “blasphemous." But accredited correspondents from all over the world are summoned to a press briefing at the Soviet Ministry of Information. “Good Morning, America" televises the mob scene in Red Square. Jeane Dixon reveals she had predicted the Lenin story in 1959. And soon an astonished world waits breathlessly as Lenin flies to New York to address the United Nations. Lenin Lives! is a highly entertaining and very unconventional story of how Western society from politicians and the media to the man in the street reacts to the most audacious international news event of the twentieth century.
