"Genius" or "Demon" of the Revolution - opinions about Lenin have been divided since the fall of the Soviet Union. As long as one-sixth of the Earth was under the Red Star and Lenin influenced the course of the "short" 20th century, both friends and foes could not ignore him. With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the search for the guilty parties began. While Marx can still occasionally assert himself as a theorist of the 19th century and a prophet of globalization, Lenin finds no mercy from the stern guardians of anti-communism. A murmur is already spreading through the cultural sections as the new millennium begins, with socialism being reconsidered as an alternative to the Empire, as new, young communists come out, and even a philosopher like Slavoj Žižek invokes the return of Lenin and the revolution. This book confronts that mercilessness.