This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Ci
Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant fig
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Ru
Two long out-of-print biographies of V.I. Lenin, published together for the first time. In Young Lenin, Trotsky details the Bolshevik leader's conversion to revolutionary Marxism dispelling many of t
Nadezhda Krupskaya was a founding member of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the wife of Valdimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924. As both his closest political collaborator and personal confid
In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. In the proce
'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Splendid ...a jewel among historie
