http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/opinion/27montefiore.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=all

Every Revolution Is Revolutionary in Its Own Way

By SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

Published: March 26, 2011 

Lenin understood that the ultimate question in each revolution is always the unfathomable alchemy of power: who controls whom. Or as he put it so succinctly: “Who whom?”