Biography of Comrade Lenin

Berlin, January, G. The day after the resignation of Lloyd-Jordia, Trotsky said that of all the governments that arose during the war, the Soviet government alone retained its stability. In fact, the working and peasant power of Russia, despite the incredible obstacles that incredibly arose in its path, is the indestructible stronghold, and, no matter how great the significance of other leaders of Soviet Russia, the most prominent representative of this power in the face of the whole world and Russia itself, is undoubtedly Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

For a long time the world has not seen a man who would be so loved, appreciated and recognized as Lenin. Meanwhile, there was a time when, on the contrary, it was possible to say that they did not despise anyone like that, they would not slander anyone like Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. This was done by those who call themselves socialists, and those who openly classify themselves to counter-revolutionaries.

Vladimir Ilyich - the great among the great, the personality, already shrouded in legends, the true revolutionary, who was unknown for a long time, was exiled, emigrated, then caused contempt and disgust - and suddenly, completely unexpectedly, by the power of his mighty will, dictated his program, spent it, conquered her, conquered power and became the person who simultaneously embodied in himself an unexplored desire of the entire Russian people and The indestructible hope of workers around the world.

In the shack of the most distant outskirts, his image hangs next to the icon, and many ministers and politicians of the great powers are experiencing a conceited need to polemize with him from the parliamentary rostrum. A despot, an implacable fanatic, a miserable party leader, a sectarian, a German agent, a traitor - they said about him no more than five years ago.

Now he is compared with Peter the Great, “Not a single person, even Peter the Great, had more influence on the fate of my homeland than Lenin,” says the Russian author, who is considering himself “counter-revolutionaries” in the preface to the book entirely on Lenin. But none of them can be compared, in its influence on the Western world, at least to a weak extent, with this dreamer, which, perhaps, is not even particularly smart ”1.

Here is what the famous author of “Reasoning about Violence” Georges Sorel wrote shortly before his death, hinting at those who “accused” him of having an influence on Lenin: “I have not the slightest reason to believe that Lenin borrowed his thoughts from my books; But if it were, I would be a lot of proud that I contributed to the spiritual growth of the person whom I consider the greatest since Marx the theoretician of socialism and at the same time as a state leader, reminiscent of Peter the Great in his genius.

” In conclusion, I recall the words of the great Russian scientist Timiryazev, who, dying, said to his loved ones: "I am happy that I was a contemporary of Lenin." The name, life, work and activity of this great social reformer, this exclusively brilliant politician already now belongs to history. The time has come when you can try to sketch the characteristic of the person who gave the world mechanism a new powerful impetus based on accurate documentary data.

Notes: 1 Landau - Aldanov.

Paris, ed. Novolotsky, quoted in the German text.