Lenin and Robespierre viewed revolutionary leadership in very different ways. Lenin was concerned with creating an organization and strategy that would show the political independence of the working class. He would have not cared what country he was doing it just that it was done somewhere so the world could have an example. Robespierre was absolutely a nationalist, everything he did he was doing for the good of France. He did not care about the …showed first 75 words of 482 total…

…showed last 75 words of 482 total…between these two. The main one was that Lenin was able to live out his term and die a peaceful death while Robespierre was executed. Robespierre was a nationalist and Lenin was a revolutionary communist. Similarities are that they both ruled through dictatorships and called them republics and communists. They also both succeeded in the revolution but both of the governments that they founded were to ultimately fail, the French in 1975 and the Russians in 1989.