The Life and Death of Lenin
- Authors
- Payne, Robert
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster (NYC)
- Tags
- history , biography , lenin; vladimir ilich; 1870-1924 , politics , biography & autobiography
- ISBN
- 9780671416409
- Date
- 1964-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.70 MB
- Lang
- en
Who was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin?
He was a man with vast potential for good and evil.
He was one of the twentieth century’s political geniuses.
He was the revolutionary leader who envisioned backward, feudal Russia as the world’s first socialist country.
He bent Karl Marx’s theories into a weapon for conquering state power, and built the Bolshevik Party into an efficient political machine capable of leading the workers and seizing power.
He held the Russian Revolution together through a bloody civil war, and yet he lived to see the betrayal of his ideals by the rise of Stalin.
As much as any leader, his ideas and personality shaped the 20th century.