Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России.
Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования Российский университет дружбы народов (РУДН).
2004.
P. 37-46
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the contemporaneous Russian and foreign historiography of the problem of a personal determinant of the political biography of Lenin and the making of personality cult of the first soviet leader. The author makes a series of important conclusions not excepting the idea that several contemporaneous scholars and politics used new materials to create a new understanding of Lenin as a politician.