Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Lenin spent all of 19 16 quite isolated with a group of other bolsheviks in switzerland. They were pretty cut off from their comrades in russia as there was a big giant war happening between them, though they were occasionally able to slip things through lines. In the meantime, lenin spent a great deal of time in libraries brushing up on his philosophy, reading a lot of hegel and aristotle so that he could better understand the tenets of marxism. While he was doing this reading, he also commenced work on what was to become one of his most famous works, imperialism,. Wherein lennon outlined a theory that capitalism had moved beyond the progressive stage that prevailed in