Lenin's Last Struggle
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Intact.
A landmark work of Soviet historiography, Lenin's Last Struggle chronicles the final years of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as he fought to steer the Bolshevik revolution away from the rising tide of Stalinist bureaucracy. Drawing on Lenin's letters, dictations, and political testament — documents suppressed for decades by the Soviet regime — historian Moshe Lewin reconstructs the dramatic political battle waged by an ailing Lenin against the consolidation of power by Joseph Stalin. The book argues compellingly that Lenin recognised the authoritarian dangers posed by Stalin and sought, even from his sickbed, to have him removed as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Written with scholarly rigour and narrative urgency, it remains one of the most authoritative and essential accounts of the critical juncture between the revolutionary idealism of early Soviet Russia and the brutal totalitarianism that followed.
Author: Moshe Lewin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Pantheon
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Intact.
A landmark work of Soviet historiography, Lenin's Last Struggle chronicles the final years of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as he fought to steer the Bolshevik revolution away from the rising tide of Stalinist bureaucracy. Drawing on Lenin's letters, dictations, and political testament — documents suppressed for decades by the Soviet regime — historian Moshe Lewin reconstructs the dramatic political battle waged by an ailing Lenin against the consolidation of power by Joseph Stalin. The book argues compellingly that Lenin recognised the authoritarian dangers posed by Stalin and sought, even from his sickbed, to have him removed as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Written with scholarly rigour and narrative urgency, it remains one of the most authoritative and essential accounts of the critical juncture between the revolutionary idealism of early Soviet Russia and the brutal totalitarianism that followed.