ABSTRACT
Lenin, who had been making speeches ever since his arrival, ended by losing his voice. Stalin and Kamenev took him to the house of his elder sister, Anna Elizarov, where a bed awaited him. Stalin felt that Lenin's exhortations would exert a decisive influence in the whirlwind that was sweeping onward the tens of millions of human beings who were sick of the terrible war, and liberated from all constraint by the revolutionary anarchy which had already shattered almost all the restraints of authority. Stalin supported Lenin, without making any great show of his support, and without indulging in long perorations. Lenin, despite his prolonged absence from the country, knew his Russia. When writing thus, Trotzky was as yet unaware that Stalin was already bound to Lenin by an alliance concluded the day before. He did not realize that Stalin, from being a hesitating moderate, had in fact become as great an extremist as Lenin.
