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As he matured, Lenin gravitated toward the ideas of Karl Marx, embracing the concept of a class struggle that pitted the disenfranchised workers against their oppressors, the bourgeoisie. Lenin’s interpretation evolved to advocate for a dictatorship of the proletariat, an ideology that foreshadowed the totalitarian grip the Bolsheviks would eventually impose. Through relentless reading, writing, and organizing, he emerged as the seminal leader of the Bolshevik Party, focusing on the need for a vanguard of dedicated revolutionaries prepared to seize power.