Editor's note: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), leader of the Communist revolution in Russia and first premier of the Soviet Union, spent much of World War I in exile. By the spring of 1917, Czar Nicholas II had been forced to abdicate, but was replaced by a government that continued to honor Russia's obligations to its allies. Lenin, believing that armed conflict was the inevitable product of capitalism, wrote his "Appeal to the Soldiers of All the Belligerent Countries" in an ...
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