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Lenin, up close and intimate
ANDREW MURRAY recommends two titles that popularise Lenin as a person and revolutionary theoretician and practitioner
COMRADES IN ARMS: A meeting of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class in February 1897 (sitting from left) Julius Martov and Vladimir Lenin, (insert) Inessa Armand
[Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya/Public domain] 
TONY BURKE reviews new releases from Cheikh Lo, Mishra & Deepa Shakthi, N’Faly Kouyate
Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade, posits DAN O’BRIEN
ANDY HEDGECOCK sees his scepticism lessened by a story is more complex and far-reaching than is initially apparent
MARK TURNER holds on tight for a mesmerising display of Neath-born ragtime virtuosity
ALAN MORRISON introduces a UK poet whose despised daytime occupation provides the subject for his writing
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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