Why did Communists promote Evolution?

[Thumpalumpacus]

There is no possible set of circumstance under which Vladimir is a typo for Aleksandr. That’s not how typos work.

And it betrays a frightful lack of due diligence, too - how hard is it to Google a book to make sure you've got the title and the author's name right?

I'd google that name just to make sure I got it right, if I were unsure. "Aleksandr" is such an obvious cognate of "Alexander" that that isn't needed. I did need a mnemonic for his last name, one I taught myself 30 years ago before Google was a thing: "i" comes before the "y" in both the alphabet and Solzhenitsyn's name.

If you're going to quote anyone, get the goddamned name straight, however you do it.