V.I. Lenin in the assessments of revolutionary contemporaries (1924)
The article analyzes obituaries and articles published in 1924, the year of Lenin's death, by contemporaries, at various times, his partners and opponents in revolutionary activities. The selection of literature as a subject of research was determined by the fact that most of the authors personally knew Lenin and of ten belonged to critics of his views and actions. Many of them were leaders of Russian social Democrats and socialist revolutionaries who were in exile at the time. The analysis made it possible to identify which features of the personality and activity of the Bolshevik leader they considered most important for understanding his political successes and failures, and his role in revolutionary events.