The span of the Philosophical Notebooks is from 1895-1911. Russia already had a Revolution in 1905. These Notebooks show many revolutions had taken place in the heart and mind of Lenin. It is here that Lenin's Notebooks are placed in front of the reader. Not without another prior mediation: the long-gone U.S.S.R's official philosophy. Sixteen years in the Notebooks is a Lenin articulating, enlightening himself like a student of philosophy. Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Aristotle (Twice! Once exclusively dealing with Aristotle's Metaphysics), Hegel's' Science of Logic', 'History of Philosophy', 'Phenomenology of Spirit' and much more. Yet, off the Notebooks there is 'Romanticism' Years later 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' would be formalised to be read. Let the reader beware, (s) he too has to' Romantically' Enlighten her/himself. Else, it will result in more mechanical executions. If one looks at any biography of Lenin would find a tragic figure, someone like Faust upheld by Goethe.