Lenin According to Lenin

This program uses Lenins own words to tell the story of the Bolshevik rise to power the overthrow of the Tsar and of the Kerensky government the efforts at world Communist revolutions and the readiness to compromise in order to save the revolution in the Soviet Union the ascendancy of the struggle against socialism over the struggle against capitalism Thus the program explains the political background of the establishment of the totalitarian Soviet state and of its economic social and cultural policiesthe precise institutions and policies that would in our time cause the destruction of what Lenin created by the force of his singleminded personality his political acuity his powerful oratoryand the weaknesses of the divided democratic opposition