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发帖数: 7349 | 1 A BRITISH intelligence officer dismissed Vladimir Lenin and his fellow
revolutionaries as “fanatical and narrow-minded”. That was an
understatement. But by early 1917 power in Russia was there for the taking.
That February, 300 years of Romanov autocracy had been ended in a few
dizzying days, while nothing had been put in its place. Russia, exhausted
and desperate from three years of disastrous war with Germany and its allies
, was being run by ineffectual and well-meaning moderates.
Lenin knew exactly what he wanted, and he would deploy extraordinary energy
and ruthlessness to achieve it. |
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