Lenin Part 4: Ghost at the Kremlin
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Lenin and the Russian Revolution
The most fundamental question that Lenin faces is how far to embrace democracy. He talked up the prospect of free and fair elections when the Tsar was in power. But he knows that the Bolsheviks' mandate could be undermined at the ballot box. What happens if civil servants say, we don't want to work for you? What do you do then? In 1917, they are clung on revolutionary enthusiasm, and they quickly realised we need to sober up and learn how to run a state.
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