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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
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
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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