On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics-including The Extreme Centre, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome-as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.
Reading this book on your vacation will make your life better and
your mind broader.
*Branko Milanovic*
Ali encourages the reader to take a fresh look at Lenin's choices
in the context of a repressive autocracy, the poverty and misery of
the bulk of the population under tsarism and the industrialised
slaughter of the first world war. What underpins his book is the
view that October was an "innocent and utopian birth" that was
subsequently "twisted" into Stalinism by three devastating years of
civil war.
*Guardian*
A powerful tool for those wanting to understand the real Lenin and
therefore the real politics behind those revolutionaries who fought
so hard but ultimately failed in their goal.
*Counterfire*
[The Dilemmas of Lenin] aims to rescue Lenin from both liberal
caricature and Soviet hagiography by recovering the realism and
dynamism of his political thought.
*The New Republic*
An incredibly powerful, panoramic, and insightful study of the
central revolutionary figure of the twentieth century ... The
Dilemmas of Lenin helps attentive readers comprehend something of
what happened in history, the realities of our time, and how the
future could unfold if we approach it with understanding and
commitment.
*International Socialist Review*
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