ABSTRACT
Lenin was a man of great intellectual gifts, but he was liable to be carried away on an irresistible impulse. This is perhaps why there were so many breaks in the continuity of his policy and why many of his acts were not sufficiently matured by cool thinking. With all Lenin's strong bent for dictatorship there was in his character one trait which, at least outwardly, made him resemble a popular leader. All sense of proportion has been lost in the exultation of Stalin. The incense wafted about his name reminds one of the hymns of praise sung to the caliphs in the Arabian Nights entertainment. Official Soviet propaganda strives to impress upon everyone that all that is good and wonderful in the country emanates solely from the super mind and will of Stalin, the great Vozhd. If Stalin's dictatorship differs materially from Lenin's in its outward form, its dissimilitude in substance is no less important.
