This text is a chapter from 'Bolsheviks', written my Mikhail Pervukhin. In this book the author provides personal portraits of leading Bolshevik figures. This chapter concerns Lenin. Artwork by S.I. Smith. History, it seems to me, had not known a case when a large country, occupying a sixth of the Earth’s surface and counting 170 million humans among its population, was managed by a gang of men who didn’t even use their real names. By men who, under quasi literary pseudonyms, would jealously co...
