
10.99- The Testament
Revolutions
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Lenin and the Russian Revolution
'With his practically dying breath, comrade lenin was saying, get rid of stalen. But the thing is, and here's where i'm following cotkin, it's very likely lenin didn't say any of this,' he says. 'The little click of secretaries around him cooked these remarks up themselves', writes Lenin. Next week we will reach the ina chapter of lennin’s life and the final chapter of our highly detailed accounting of the russian revolution. Because i am going to use that chapter to mark the end of the revolutionary age and the beginning of simply the early history of the us.
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