After the October Revolution, propaganda trains toured the Russian countryside with actors and artists on board, officials, a printing press, a mobile movie theater, posters, and leaflets to be thrown from the windows. The V.I. Lenin was the most famous of such trains.  Comrade Lenin  lived there for weeks at a time circa 1918 as he took his Revolution directly to the peasants. Everyone called this train "Lenin's Train." What was the aim and the spirit of this propaganda train, and of Lenin's leadership generally?  As Lenin famously proclaimed: "We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth[.] ... We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us." The Bolsheviks took over Russia pretending to have widespread popular support.  In fact, a tiny cult had...(Read Full Article)