International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
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.