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Lenin was the initiator of the central drama–the tragedy–of our era, the rise of totalitarian states. A bookish gentleman with a scholar’s habits and a general’s tactical instincts, Lenin introduced to the 20th century the practice of taking an all-embracing ideology and imposing it on an complete society speedily and mercilessly he developed a regime that erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition. In his quick profession in electrical power, from 1917 till his demise in 1924, Lenin designed a model not simply for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, for Hitler, for Pol Pot.
And although in this way Lenin might be the central actor who begins the 20th century, he is the least knowable of characters. As a boy expanding up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal celebration of his youth–the event that radicalized him–came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to support assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became more and more involved in radical politics, and following completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he started his rise as the leading communist theorist, tactician and celebration organizer.
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