The issues posed in this fight-from the leadership's class composition, to the worker-peasant alliance and battle against national oppression-remain central to world politics today."Covers in detail the last 400 days in Lenin's fight in establishing the 'new order' of Russian Union & Peasants power since the advent of [the] October 1917 revolution . . . . Some of the facts which were clandestinely concealed for a long time . . . have been brought out for the first time in any language."-United Service Institution Journal [India]Chronology, glossary, index.

           "With impressive argumentation         and wide-ranging scholarship, Anderson presents us with a Lenin that no         one seriously interested in current debates over the relevance of Marxist         theory to socialist practice can afford to miss." -- Bertell Ollman,         author of Dialectical Investigations       "An important contribution         to grasping the conceptual roots of Marxist theory and practice."         -- Tom Rockmore, author of Hegel's Circular Epistomology       "Today Lenin looks like         he did little more than prepare the way for Stalin. You will find the         opposite view in this novel study. . . . I recommend the book to anyone         seriously interested in Russia and revolution." -- George Uri Fischer,         author of The Soviet System and Modern Society