Dimensions
155 x 233 x 45mm
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was born in 1870 and died in 1924 at the age of fifty-three, childless but leaving many ideological heirs and millions of political offspring throughout the world.
Lenin might have become a professor of economics, a successful lawyer or a chess champion. Nothing in his ancestry, childhood or adolescence offers a clue to his subsequent career as revolutionary, dictator and founder of the Soviet state. He was, however, a child of Russia - turbulent, violent - and the fruit of a tree with long roots in her varied soil.
'The Life Of Lenin' is a history of the Russian revolutionary movement and of Soviet Russia from 1917-1964 wrapped up in a detailed biography of Lenin. It is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of the 20th Century and the revolution which he launched and led.
