Word: theoretician
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...nucleus. Before anyone else in history, he recognized the limitless potential of political and social engineering to reach into every aspect of a people's life and transform it. The durability and power of the Soviet regime testify to Lenin's essential genius as the theoretician of political organization...
...Lenin myth portrays him as the master theoretician of Communist revolutions. In fact, not one successful 20th century revolution-not even the Russian-followed the pattern that Lenin advocated. As he saw it, small bands of professional revolutionaries would inspire the masses and lead them in forcibly overthrowing established regimes. This was his hope as he waited in self-imposed exile in Western Europe around the turn of the century. There, amid endless quarrels with rival Socialist exiles, he created his own cadre of disciples who expected revolutions to break out in Europe and then spread throughout the world. Lenin...