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The socialist revolutionaries, who were not Marxists, were far better organized.
社會主義革命者并非馬克思主義者，他們有更好的組織
They also had a clear program: an eight hour day for the workers, a constituent assembly and giving all the farmland to the peasants.
他們也有一個清晰的計劃，工人8小時工作制，選舉組成的立憲會議，將所有的農田分給農民
But the Bolsheviks greatest weakness was also its greatest strength:
而布爾什維克最大的弱點也是他們最大的優勢，
the intellect, determination and driving personality of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
那便是弗拉基米爾·伊里奇·列寧的睿智，決斷和領導魅力
Lenin believed that the revolution had to be led by an educated disciplined elite, not a mass of backward factory workers and peasants.
列寧相信革命必須由受過教育的紀律性強的精英領導，而非一眾落后工廠的工人和農民
Though Lenin was quite at home in the convoluted world of Marxist theory he was totally pragmatic.
盡管列寧十分精通費解的馬克思理論，但他非常注重實際
He might change his position or form an alliance or break an old one but the bottom line was always the success of the revolution.
他或會改變立場，結成新的聯盟，或是打破舊的聯盟，不過他始終堅守的底線是確保革命的成功
For Lenin the end always justified the means of achieving it.
對列寧來說，一切以結果為導向手段也要遵循結果
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born May 4, 1870 in Simbirsk to a noble family.
弗拉基米爾·伊里奇·烏里揚諾夫于1870年5月4日出生在辛比爾斯克的一個貴族家庭里
His older brother Alexander was hung in 1886 for his part in a plot to kill the Tsar.
他的哥哥亞歷山大由于參加刺殺沙皇的活動而在1886年時被處以絞刑
Although it's hard to see Lenin as becoming anything but a revolutionary, the loss of his brother certainly didn't help matters.
盡管列寧很可能不會走上除革命外的其他道路，他失去哥哥這件事并沒讓他退卻
