The development of Lenin’s theme in Shalasha, which had recently been reflected in the film Tales of Lenin. Ilyich ordered the delivery from Stockholm of the forgotten Blue Notebook with an archival summary of quotations from Marx and Engels, and delivery to the place of his temporary stay did not fail. In more than two million Petrograd 1917, he has nowhere to hide, but the Leader, rejecting both the state power in the person of the Provisional (until the results of the elections of the Constituent Assembly) government, and the amateur government, which did not justify his preferences, in the form of Soviets elected by the working masses, is not discouraged, and, knowing how it should, dreams of a direct seizure of power, in the eyes of Soviet moviegoers, of the genius of an intractable political hooligan who warned of malice, does not look stupid.
In human terms, the characters almost do not communicate, mostly silently waiting for the next statements of the Leader - whistling about his life-long constrained material circumstances. The lazy Zinoviev, who has temporarily gained confidence in Ilyich, has an expression on his mind that clearly indicates his inclination to betrayal in the near future.
Evil rumor attributed the presence in Shalash and Krupskaya, which, of course, was a lie.