Lenin’s Wonderful Georgian

John Etty charts the complex, and highly significant, relationship between Lenin and Stalin.

According to Dmitri Volkogonov, 'The greatest secret of Stalin's invulnerability, his diabolical strength, was his monopoly on Lenin'. But did Stalin have any right to claim this monopoly, which seemed almost to lend him rights of co-ownership of Lenin?

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