Jim’s Reviews > Why Lenin? Why Stalin? A Reappraisal of The Russian Revolution, 1900-1930 > Status Update

At the time of the March Revolution (1917), the Bolsheviks were still a negligible group. Their leaders were scattered: Lenin in Switzerland, Stalin in Siberia, Trotsky...in New York...Yet when Lenin heard of the fall of autocracy, his mind was made up. A socialist revolution in Russia-and perhaps world revolution too-was within reach.