The author of the book is V.T. Loginov, the best biographer of V.I. Lenin today. In his book, he provides a variety of factual material concerning the personality and activities of the Bolshevik leader. Here are Lenin's correspondence, party documents, testimonies of his comrades and enemies, secret archives of the Security Department, articles in Russian and foreign publications. The author needs all this in order to answer the question, who was this man? What goals did he set for himself? How did he achieve them? Portrait of V.I. Lenin, which Loginov paints, is a portrait of a tough pragmatist and strong-willed leader. His strength lay in the fact that he reacted sensitively to any change in the situation in Russia and brilliantly used emerging circumstances to achieve his goals. The author of the book shows this using examples of the turbulent year 1917, which became the triumph of Lenin as a politician.