One thing for me was how light hearted and funny Lenin was. I expected it to be really hard going like a lot of Marx but he had such a wit about him and I remember laughing out loud a few times by his turn of phrase. I don’t think he gets enough credit for it, he took a really serious, dry subject and made it enjoyable to read. He really was an incredible writer.
stalin reads like a college professor teaching a class
I do like reading his early 1900s Georgian-ass lingo, “like everyone says…the Sergeant’s widow Flogged Herself!” Or “be cautious when a cobbler starts selling wheat” or something lol.