Source Analysis: Lenin’s Rise to Power

That V.I. Lenin left behind volumes of his own writings is helpful in determining his justifications for his historic actions. For example, two of his essays, “The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution,” from April 1917, also known as the “April Theses,”[1]and “Theses on the Constituent Assembly”[2] from six months later, help to …

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