Lenin

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Douglas Smith, The Man at the Vanguard; In his quest to overthrow the czar, Lenin was motivated both by Marxist theory and by revenge for the execution of his older brother. Wall Street Journal, Nov 7, 2017
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rev ... vanguard-1510011935
www.counter-striketv.com/uploads ... _vanguard_-_wsj.pdf
(book review on Victor Sebestyen Lenin; The man, the dictator, and the master of terror. Pantheon, 2017)

Note:
(a) "Like other Russian radicals before him—the Decembrists, Mikhail Bakunin, Prince Pyotr Kropotkin — Vladimir Ulyanov was born into gentile luxury."
(i) Decembrist revolt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt
("shooter [Pyotr] Kakhovsky was executed by hanging, together with four other leading Decembrists'" others deported to Siberia)
(ii) Mikhail Bakunin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
(1814 – 1876; died in Bern, Switzerland (age 62); an anarchist)
(iii) Peter Kropotkin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin
(1842 – 1921 (died of pneumonia); became increasingly critical of the methods of the Bolshevik dictatorship [after October revolution])

(b) "Vladimir's brother Alexander was hanged in 1887 for his participation in a plot on the life of Czar Alexander III. Vladimir, then 17, had worshiped Alexander"
(i) Vladimir Ulyanov (1870 – 1924)
(ii) Aleksandr Ulyanov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ulyanov
(1866 – 1887)
(iii) Alexander III of Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia
(1845 – 1894; reign 1881-1994; father of, and succeeded by, Nicholas II)