Marxism

The peasant strategy Mao's own party first rejected won him a country, and the archives that later opened show how much the resulting record was built to fit him.

Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by the paramilitaries of a government her own socialist movement had helped install, and historians still argue how far up that government the responsibility for her killing reached.

A revolution historians cannot even agree on the start date of, because it was really two long wars, a famine of governance, and a peasantry that ran out of patience.

1919

1966

1958

1956

1917

His own dying warning about Stalin's growing power went largely unheeded, which makes the question of how much responsibility Lenin bears for what followed him one the sources themselves cannot fully settle.