Who influenced Lenin?
Lenin’s views were heavily influenced by Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto. Lenin along with his close friend, Leonid Trotsky, took key theories from Marx’s writing and adapted them to help revolutionize Russia. The Bolsheviks principles were a mold of Marx, filled with the toughness of Lenin. By manipulating these theories he changed Russia, the ideology, and power. Lenin’s close friend Leonid Trotsky was a very important part in the Russian Revolution, he was considered Lenin’s right hand man. Trotsky disagreed with Lenin on who should lead the revolution; he didn’t believe that an elite group was needed and that the leadership should be left to the proletariat. The one who influenced Lenin the most though was Nicholas Chernyshevskii, the Russian revolutionary ideologue, look it up if you’re really interested in the topic.
