"Historical way is not the trentur of Nevsky prospect" - about V.I. Lenin's letter to American workers

In August, 2018 V.I. Lenin wrote the letter to American workers, in which he in particular quoted the words of a prominent Russian public fig-ure, writer and revolutionary N.G. Chernyshevsky about historical devel-opment of mankind. Here, at once fundamental difference between Lenin and Chernyshevsky can be traced: the latter has the development "historical path", and the proletarian revolutionary has “historical activity”. It was dis-cussed and protected by V.I. Lenin in his letter. Its purpose was accurate propaganda: to turn American workers, progressively adjusted socialist in-tellectuals against interventional policy of the USA and the Entente carried out concerning Soviet Russia in 1918. That year Russia through revolution and civil war chose a further way of its social modernization. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin explained Bolshevist program of transformation of Russia to American workers. He noted that the US had arisen as a result of anti-feudal revolution and liberation war against England...