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:
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.
To understand the model and theory of Lenin we must understand the ways in which he utilized the theories of Marx and revolution in ways which expanded them, and also allowed him to manipulate them so that the will of the people would be the will of revolution and not some elite ruling class trying to merely overthrow another elite ruling class without populist support. Marx knew, and so did Lenin, that the rule of capitalism was not affecting positively the people it was intended to serve-the masses. The masses never appeared on the social-political scene as an independent entity in revolution. In fact, Lenin saw them more transformed as a counter-revolutionary force, one that was more reactionary than revolutionary thanks to...