“The Revolution will not be televised” is a famous line from the song of the same name by Gill Scott-Heron from 1971. This line has a precursor though which many of us may be less aware of.
When the writer Maxim Gorky, a supporter of the Bolsheviks, went to plead with Lenin that, amidst the mass executions of ‘class enemies’ being carried out by the regime, the life of a Romanov Grand Duke be spared since he was a fine historian, Lenin responded with the catchy line: “The Revolution needs no historian.”
He was a very inclusive man. He would execute anyone.
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