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The October Revolution and Lenin
The interesting thing about Lenin is he was a zealot and he was a visionary. He really kind of meant it, but Lenin also was someone who was strategic. For the hardcore people in the Soviet Union, this was a huge betrayal. To have someone who is that much of an ideologue and that much of a visionary, but still to have any element of pragmatism to him is, I think, a very rare combination.