There is certainly a change in mood and style between Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Experience’. Throughout the former of these Blake champions imagination as well as freedom and tolerance, ideas which formed the backbone of the French Revolution and the Romantic poet’s view of it. However in ‘Innocence’ Blake takes a much more prophetic [...]

Lenin died in January 1924, leaving a gap as leader of the Soviet Union at a crucial time of Russia’s progression towards communism. However, at the time of Lenin’s death the country had seemed to achieve a reasonable degree of stability, both economically and politically.
During the civil war Lenin imposed “War Communism” which had policies [...]