Lenin’s Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand
From the acclaimed author of The Sealed Train and Those Damned Rebels comes the definitive biography of Inessa Armand: revolutionary, tactician, and confidante and mistress of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin....
View ArticleBuilding the Party: Lenin, 1893-1914 by Tony Cliff
“The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that revolution. This book by British socialist Tony Cliff...
View ArticleLenin by Helene Carrere D’Encausse and George Holoch
“Vladimir Llyich Lenin, who died in 1924 at the age of fifty-four went through two distinct periods in this political life. He spent twenty years in exile building the Communist Party and dreaming of...
View ArticleLenin (Critical Lives series) by Lars T. Lih
“In Lenin, Lars T. Lih presents a striking new interpretation of Lenin’s political beliefs and strategies. Until now, Lenin has been portrayed as a pessimist with a dismissive view of the revolutionary...
View ArticleLenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov
The special assistant to Boris Yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of Lenin with a biography based on secret Soviet archives, revealing the Founding Father as a cruel, totalitarian leader...
View ArticleLenin: A Biography by various authors
There are many different books with this title: by Robert Service Service’s Lenin is a political colossus but also a believable human being. This biography stresses the importance of his supportive...
View ArticleLenin: A Revolutionary Life by Christopher Read
“From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it...
View ArticleConspirator: Lenin In Exile by Helen Rappaport
“Helen Rappaport’s Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin’s years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period shaped the life of one of the 20th century’s most important...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of Lenin by Robert Payne
“Payne’s book reads with a guiltless ease that gives it’s date of publication away – it couldn’t have been written in the past thirty years. Completely free of the dust-laden pretention of “serious”...
View ArticleThe Life of Lenin by Louis Fischer
“Lenin was a revolution. He lived and breathed and died for it. Born in 1870, in the sleepy Volga town of Simbirsk, he died in 1924 at the age of 53 having changed the course of history throughout the...
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