<P> The phrase is sometimes cynically rearranged to `` One step forward , two steps back ... '' to reflect a situation where , seemingly for every attempt to make progress in a task , an actual retrograde performance is achieved . The phrase One Step Forward , Two Steps Back was used as a title of a 1904 revolutionary pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin . </P>
<P> The phrase is sometimes cynically rearranged to `` One step forward , two steps back ... '' to reflect a situation where , seemingly for every attempt to make progress in a task , an actual retrograde performance is achieved . The phrase One Step Forward , Two Steps Back was used as a title of a 1904 revolutionary pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin . </P>
who said one step forward two steps back
who said one step forward two steps back
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin