Book by Doctor of Historical Sciences V.T. Loginova, in a lively and popular form, talks about Lenin’s legacy and its relevance in the modern era, about the gigantic army of Lenin’s like-minded people and his current opponents, as well as about the amazingly interesting and multifaceted personality of Vladimir Ilyich himself. An important place in the book is given to the problems of humanism in Lenin’s ideological heritage and the practice of the revolutionary struggle of the Bolshevik Party, issues of morality and ethics. • In the electronic version of the book there are links to the collected works of Marx and Engels [ME:], Plekhanov [P:] and Lenin [L: ] are given in the main text by volume and page(s). In the paper original, they are all given in full in the footnotes at the bottom of the page.