Lenin as a Mirror of Russian Revolution

Abstract

Lenin did not accidentally call Leo Tolstoy “the mirror of the Russian revolution”. In his rejection of autocratic Russia, he was guided not only by Marxist theory, but also by the moral rejection of “stagnant” reality by the Russian literature. Hence the abundance of “livelihood” literary images contained even in Lenin’s theoretical works. In this connection, Lenin himself appears as a kind of mirror of not yet understood the Russian revolution.