Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
George Weigel: Lenin meets Corleone
Residents queue up to receive free loaves of bread near Lenin square in Debaltseve on March 2, 2015.
Attempts to understand Vladimir Putin and the Russian revanchism that now threatens to dismantle the basic security architecture of post-Cold War Europe ought to begin not with reference to Lenin and Stalin, or by digging into one’s dog-eared copies of books by Hans Morgenthau, Samuel Huntington, or George Kennan.