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The Lenin Scenario
by Tariq Ali
Verso £12.99
Imperialism and the National Question
by VI Lenin
Verso £14.99
LENIN: THE MOVIE is a film that has never been made, although the raw material is promising enough. Now that the 100th anniversary of the revolution he led and the centenary of his death have both come and gone, it may be that it never will.
Of course, there are doubtless Soviet-era hagiographies out there, and works of higher quality in which Lenin appears. But nothing that tells the story of the man in all its richness.
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