If you had to pick the single most influential individual of the twentieth century, Vladimir Lenin would almost certainly be in the top of your bracket. While a certain Austrian art student might have a bit more x-factor—as we say in the sales business—the leader of the Bolsheviks probably did more than any other single individual (with the possible exception of Gavrilo Princip) to set the "Century of Blood" in motion. Exactly why and exactly how the Tsarist autocracy of 1914 came to be replaced by the totalitarian Bolshevism of 1921 (the last real year of the Civil War against the Whites)...