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What was Lincoln Steffens’s view on the Bolshevik Revolution?

Lincoln Steffens admired the Bolshevik Revolution and the thinking of Vladimir Lenin. He famously wrote to a friend in 1919, “I have seen the future; and it works,” reflecting his interest in revolutionary politics and his disillusionment with the idea that progressivism could bring what he saw as necessary societal change.