As Solzanitzyn points out in “Lenin in Zuerich,” Lein got everything wrong about what was going to happen in Russia because he wrote and wrote like a Marxist. The Revolution was supposed to start in Germany, not Russia, because Russia was not historically “ripe.” But after the Germans shipped him in to undermine the Russian war effort, and he finally figured out what his real options were, he managed to overturn the existing government and set up a whole new kind of state. As as theorist he ws full of it’ as a tactician, he masterful. In short, he went in with a plan, saw the plan would not work and—after a rustification in Finland— came back and with his former foe and new ally. the Jew Trotsky, created the Soviet state. most of in violation of Marxist principles. Now the ATTITUDES were the same as Marx: the hatred of religion etc. But he bided his time until he consoldiated his power. Events took him by surprise, of course, and he was struck down, and Stalin came into take things in a different direction, certainly away from what Trotsky planned. But Lenin ws no mere ideologue blindly follwing the script of the mastermind.