Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin was one of the most influential leaders the world has ever known. His life and leadership in many ways characterized success more than any other leader in the history of the world stage. He was a man who pushed the wheels of history and fate to make them expand both their scope and breadth of revolution and Marxism. In many ways he maintained a total power and control over a third of the world’s population that has seldom if ever been equaled. He was at the same time a visionary who believed in the totality of everything from his interpretation of Marxist views. Above all else, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution left his lasting mark on our modern world:
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 control to the rest of the world. Historians have ranked the Bolshevik leader with Einstein, Freud, and Hitler as one of the four men who gained world fame in our time and left their personal imprint on our age.
This paper will analyze the theories, models and social and cultural concepts of Lenin. It will also compare his theory and model against those of the Adolph Hitler and Ayatollah Khomeini regimes. His theories and model will be evaluated in terms of the empirical evidence.
The leadership of Vl...