Lenin

Lenin created a new type of party, seized power with it, and aimed to extend his system over the entire world. The impact of what he did and thought has been so great that to come to terms with him we must also come to terms with Stalinist and post-Stalinist Russia, and indeed with the main conflicts of the modern world. This Robert Conquest equips us to do in a book which is a blend of history, biography and political analysis.

‘Intelligent, gracefully written, and far removed from the baleful style of Cold War polemic which used to make short books on Communist problems such gloomy reading.’         Neal Ascherson, Observer