Philip Pomper, author of Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution, stated the following in a March 2010 interview:

[INDENT]"Lenin’s writing during the summer of 1917 holds many references to the Jacobins. That meant summary executions. He was of a mind to do that. He and Yakov Sverdelov, his close associate at that time, were the people who decided [to execute the Tsar]. They were the ones who had the main control over it. Some people think it was the local Soviet, which was very radical in the Urals, but nobody would decide anything without Lenin. So it was Lenin and Sverdlov who decided it."[/INDENT]

Interestingly, and importantly, there is also this from October 2003:

[INDENT]Neo-Jacobins are known to Americans as neoconservatives, a clever euphemism behind which hides a gang of radicals who stand outside of, and opposed to, the American tradition. The US has been subverted from within as these counterfeit conservatives hold the reins of power in the Bush administration.

Jacobins are to be found among both political parties and among both “conservative” and “liberal” columnists. More[/INDENT]
We, in the U.S. and allied nations, are currently at the mercy of a people and organizations whose ideological base is the same as Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

And many wonder why so many of us are concerned for the future of our people.