Lenin’s anguish and intrigues

The last years of his life are a contradictory picture for historians. On the one hand, his cult among the working classes grew, on the other Lenin had never before been so ignored by party dignitaries.

Vladimir Lenin — [Pavel Semyonovich Zhukov (1870–1942), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]

“The revolution was not carried out so that the landowners could return to their estates. These parasites, who have been sucking the blood of the people for so long, must know that neither liberty nor equality…