More Alive than All the Living

Abstract

It bears repeating again and again: it is always difficult to write about Lenin, not so much because hundreds of thousands of works have already been written about him (and quite a number of them very talented as well) as for the one single reason, familiar to all, that the tremendous feat that was his life does not submit to the usual standards, and the universal dimensions of his intellect are beyond the scope and grasp of all of us.