UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN RUSSIA COMMITTING SUICIDE
Leningrad, Russia (JFK+50) On May 21, 1924, The Evening Star reports "a wave of suicide is sweeping over the bourgeois* students of Leningrad University**." Many students fear exclusion under a "new decree."
Lists of students posted in a Russian newspaper include as many as nine student suicides a day. Undergraduates are "in despair" at LU as well as at other Russian universities.
The Star report reveals that suicide is considered "the method of Russian students for registering a protest when all else has failed." Professors are in the process of petitioning the Soviet government to "modify" or postpone the decree.
*Bourgeois, middle class of materialistic & conventional values & attitudes
**University of Leningrad, one of the oldest & largest universities in the USSR founded in St. Petersburg in 1819. In 1891, Vladimir Lenin passed law exams at the UL.
SOURCE
"Suicide Wave Sweeps Soviet Universities," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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