The Novel of Lenin

Book strip #1

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  The State and Revolution

  by V. I. Lenin

  Introduction by Antonio Negri

  Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional s...
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  Faraway the Southern Sky

  by Joseph Andras

  Translated by Simon Leser

  Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, t...
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  Lenin's Childhood

  by Isaac Deutscher

  Introduction by Tamara Deutscher and Gonzalo Pozo

  When he died suddenly in 1967, Isaac Deutscher had completed only the compelling first chapter of a long-anticipated biography of Lenin, published here. It covers Lenin’s family background, birth a...
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  Not By Politics Alone

  by V. I. Lenin

  Edited by Tamara Deutscher

  This vivid selection, compiled and introduced by Tamara Deutscher, written by Lenin and those who knew him, brings us the revolution in his everyday life – the man who lived by politics but not by ...
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  Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us

  by Joseph Andras

  A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have...
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  Imperialism and the National Question

  by V. I. Lenin

  Introduction by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of th...
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  The Lenin Scenario

  by Tariq Ali

  Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali’s captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical reco...