The Archive · 1925

A Bolshevik Biography

Lenn By Leon Trotaky. Auth No one who wants to unders the whole Bolshevik business can afford to neglect Trotsky's panegyric jon Lenin, because, quite uncon clously, he puts his finger on the of the whole which consists in arguing from particular to the general, with "high-powered ing," Lenin was "a na-degree," and founded his internationalism on the course Russian national history, and especially "'on the barbaric cruelty of the most absolute of States." But, as God fulfils Himself in many ways, other countries have quite a different national foundation, and need a different course of treatment. Tt is true that Lenin nursed his wrath to keep it warm in many dif ferent countries, Trotsky carefully following his curriculum, but he was always the oppressed moujily in spirit, if not by birth, whereas th moujik died in England with the heptarchy. But Troteky's account of his ideology is of first-rate value a record.

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