Revolution!

Resumen del libro

Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.'

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used his words to launch a soaring critique of imperialist society and to theorize the development of the world's first socialist state. Much of his writing was translated into English in order to further the Socialist cause.

This book is a compilation of some of Lenin's most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and recorded conversations. They expose his views on topics ranging from democracy to terrorism, from religion to Stalin's untrustworthiness and from education to music. Accompanied by a range of arresting images, including contemporary propaganda posters, photographs, portraits, illustrations and Soviet art, these aphoristic proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of pre- and post-Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth century's most defining political figures.

Biografía del autor

(Vladimir Ilich Ulianov; Simbirsk, 1870 - Nijni-Novgorod, 1924) Líder comunista ruso que dirigió la Revolución de octubre y creó el régimen comunista soviético. Miembro de una familia de clase media de la región del Volga, su animadversión contra el régimen zarista se exacerbó a partir de la ejecución de su hermano en 1887, acusado de conspiración. Estudió en las universidades de Kazán y San Petersburgo, en donde se instaló como abogado en 1893.