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HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin
Published 4 months ago
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The year is 1920.
The Empires of Europe have spent the last half decade blowing each other up with bombs, guns and heavy artillery.
As World War 1 burns itself out, men who survived the fighting begin to wonder if a better world, a world without empires and wars, is possible.
These working class men return home to grinding poverty and the brutal conditions of factory work. Many still do not even have the vote.
For seventy years, since that famous manifesto was published, a spectre had haunted Europe, the spectre of communism.
In 1918 soldiers returning to Russia joined a revolution and pulled down the empire of the Tsars, and established the first communist state.
Men across Europe begin to believe that their dreams of a better world can become real. That the old order of empires and war could be torn down
and in its place could be made a new order.
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This is the story of a meeting between two men whose dreams of a new world order had a powerful impact on the 20th century.
Vladimir Ilyvich Lenin was the most famous revolutionary leader in history.
Aged 17 Lenin saw his brother executed for a plot to kill the Tsar Alexander III. Lenin dedicated his life to revenge, joining the revolutionaries and ultimately leading them to power in 1918.
Lenin’s climb to power has all the drama of a Tolstoy novel. Bank robberies, exhil