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An enumeration of the most influential men in the twentieth century would undoubtedly have to include Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin. Though not lacking in tragic components, his life is in may ways a success story unparalleled in the annals of modern history. Of relatively obscure social origin, born and raise in one of the provincial backwaters of Russia, Lenin was a recognized Marxist, political publicist, and revolutionary leader by the time he was thirty years old. At the age of forty-seven, he became the founder of the first Communist regime and the leader of a political movement which-within the span of one short generation-would succeed in establishing control over more than one-third of mankind and would aspire to extend that con

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combat the forces as opposed to merely react to them, “No longer did he believe the struggle of the workers…for their daily needs of itself and inevitably forces the workers to think about questions of the state and politics…and that the task of the revolutionaries consisted of helping the workers in this struggle which they themselves have already begun to fight. What was needed was a general staff of the revolution, a group of professional experts who would do the thinking for the masses, organize them into an effective fighting force, and at the appropriate moment lead them into battle,” (Theen, 1973: 101). Believing in the totalitarianism of Marxism, he believed that politics and leadership were the culmination of a long line of events that were linked in a total whole. He felt that the state was the main instrument for achieving this kind of political existence and the Russian revolutionary tradition was the mode he saw whereby these aims could be achieved. However, unlike a lot of his fellow revolutionaries, Lenin treated the state as a tool not as something to rid the people from, “The whole of political life is an endless chain made up of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics consists of finding and
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