Lenin in Zurich

This book gives a good view into what sort of man Lenin was really like. Built up by Soviet Communist propaganda as the wisest man in history who devoted his life to bringing a Bolshevik utopia to the world, Solzhenitsyn shows us, during this period when Lenin stuck in Switzerland by the First World War, that he was a man that had little sympathy or empathy for his fellow man, who criticized other emigres for enjoying life in exile from Russia even though he was doing the same thing, a man who never actually worked a day in his life, surviving by living off handouts from relatives and ill-gotten gains by other Marxists, and who had an affair with Inessa Armand while being married to Krupskaya (who went along with the whole thing).