An impressive literary work of Catherine Merridale who also wrote “Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia”, “Ivan’s War: The Red Army, 1939-45”, and “The Secret Heart of Russia’s History”. Her award winning publications was recognized in Heinemann Prize for Literature and Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. The book “Lenin on the Train” narrates the April 1917 war in Europe when Lenin is still preaching the concept and ideology of socialism that rocks the empires of the Romanovs and the Bolsheviks. At that time (1917) at the height of the First World War the new concepts of Lenin from the teachings of Marx is confusing the minds of the European people and the political leaders in Europe. The French, British, and the German governments are in a political pressure to reconcile the pressure of politics related to the war in Europe. But the travel of Lenin in Europe by train at that time gives hope to the teaching of Karl Marx to spread Europe and the world.
The political conflict between Germany and
Russia at that time gave Lenin political and diplomatic obstacle during his
trip to Finland and Switzerland. Many
German soldiers at that time are butchering the Russian soldiers in the eastern
front since 1914. The political concept of redistribution of wealth and
sponsoring equally radical transformations in culture and social relations. His
political and ideological promise to the country’s poor gave his political
platform massive political pulse in Russia and Europe at that time. If you will think back the political management
of the Romanovs and the Bolsheviks, the people of Europe and Russia at that
time is fed up of the brutality that the Bolsheviks printed in the political
history of Russia. On the contrary, on
the height of the industrial revolution where huge companies and famous
business personalities in Europe start to dominate business and politics and
practice capitalism, the middle working class at the same time has the inclination
and comfort to the political teachings and governance of Lenin and Marx. Lenin
at that time play the minds of the poor not knowing the difficulties and
political tragedies of socialism as it interacts with capitalism in South
America, Asia, and the world. But at that
very moment the honest political ideology of Lenin from Marx enlightened the
hearts of the working class in Europe and contradicts with the modern
capitalism theory practiced by the British Empire and other European countries
and Western allies. That seed of
socialist concept echoed in Asia and the mind of Mao that triggers the
socialist Republic of China that ends the last Emperor of China. I’ve seen that
Hollywood movie though, “The last emperor” portrays not only the imperial Chinese
regime political change to Mao’s socialist ideology but also the theories of
Yuval and Fukuyama will relate to the fundamental theories of political and
philosophical change of governance.
Thus, the enthusiasm of Lenin at that time during his travel in Europe
will give him the new horizon of socialism not only his present physical travel
in Europe at that time but also the theoretical travel of his socialist
ideology that Marx and Trotsky thought will transform and equalize the
political governance and taxation of capitalism that the US and the allied
countries are preaching throughout the world.
The resistance of the Empires of the Bolsheviks at that time in Europe
is also an imaginable that the struggle of socialism and imperialism in Europe
are in a struggle of power and general public political popularity. According to the people of Russia at that
time that Freedom has finally come when the regime of the Romanovs has finally
gone and the political ideology of Lenin and Marx are the present and most
effective political and ideological pattern of governance in Russia. But as what Lenin told to his political and
military comrades that socialism won’t survive if socialism will be practiced
only in Europe specifically Russia. And
again, Mao is the seed of socialism in Asia with an adjacent socialist
political movement in South American political personality like Fidel Castro,
Chavez, and many neo Socialist enthusiast.
On the contrary Capitalism is spreading like wild fire throughout the
world that gives more wealth and riches to the Kingdoms of England, Europe, and
Euro Asia.
The concrete example of socialist failure is the economy of Cuba while the booming and rapid wealth generating economy of China will also prove today that socialism is contributing goodness to the people’s republic of China. But what happened during the cold war specifically the Vietnam War is the real example of political struggle between socialism and capitalism. Undeniably, the history shows that the North consumed the political influence of the South Vietnam that the American troops at that time withdraw their long and lasting desperate war in the Pacific. During that time socialist and communist ideology at that time in the US soil is creeping into the young minds and young thinkers. Higher military intelligence of US as well as the Russian KGB are mobilizing all their military intelligence assets to control the world’s political popularity dominance. Many academic writers and political analyst and philosophers like Fukuyama, Yuval, Merridale, and Brown proves that Socialist form of ideology for governance is having hiccups in terms of management and organization. Come to think of it that during the time of the industrialization the first Scientific Management is used by the American Military before business and capitalist industries used their technique to manage human resource and logistics in the huge American and allied military mobility around the world.
Thus, the
modern scientific management icons like Peter Drucker are not only famous in
business and world economy but also in military management and logistics
management. Moreover, the theory of
Lenin lacks objectivity that many countries around the world like Cuba failed
to implement. But scholars of today are
more interested as to how Socialist republic of China mixed the socialist
system of government with the integration of the International law that
International law specifically the UN are dominantly patterned to the
Capitalism ideology. During that time of Lenin they hired mutineers to disturb
Europe and Germany. While Lenin is on
the train his mind is flying to the site of the revolution in Russia that his
agonizing situation on the train is far from what he is thinking at the
moment. His thoughts of being hanged or
sentenced to death are the thoughts of Lenin at that very moment. But his dream
of spreading the word of socialism not only in Russia but to the revolutionary
parties of China, Vietnam, India Sub-continent, and the Caribbean and the world
gave hope to Lenin at that moment. Merridale further include in her book the
treasures and gold of the Germans at that time.
The unclear and untold detail information about the gold of the Germans
at that time are in the inner archives of the most classified information in
world history.
American Communism
Referring from the academic publication of Richard J. Evans “The
Pursuit of Power” (Europe 1815-1914) equally proves the weight of Lenin power
at that time to the other regime in Europe from 1815-1914. US on the struggle
of power in Europe at that time created the Monroe Doctrine to prevent Europe
from intervening politically with the Western Countries. The French Monarch, Kingdom of Habsburg, and
the Kingdom of the Netherlands at that time are in the midst of the Lenin
socialist Ideology fever. But because of
the promise of Lenin to the working class at that time the general public of Europe
was entice to the lucrative involvement of the working class and the public to the
governance of the political system of Russia.
Another present day scholar who added the political viewpoints of Lenin’s
regime is the academic book publication of Paul Le Blanc entitled “Marx, Lenin
and Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of
Globalization” published by Routledge London (2006). His philosophical analysis regarding the political
theories of Marx and Lenin points to the modern realities of modern day America
and the World where education and technology collide to strengthen the
fundamentals of Capitalism. The novel of
George Orwell 1984 is quoted as an analogy to depict the meaning of the many
confusions between the teachings of socialism and capitalism.
The book further concluded and showed the
emphatic flow of events from the empires to the ideology of Lenin while he is
on the train until the modern governance of globalization. Some significant questions for discussions
that we can get from the content of the whole academic journals given above is
about the need of war. A notion that
goes, we need war to end war. Thus, it
proves that from the history of Europe about war and peace, we need war to end
war? or war is part of civilization that Yuval proved in his book Sapiens that
war and conflict is part of human survival.
What is the utopia of political conflict such as socialism and
capitalism and the religion of ideology that mankind can rely as the basis of
world governance and order?
Professor Catherine Merridale Author: "Lenin On The Train" (2016)
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