Lenin's impact on the course of 20th-century history can hardly be overestimated. Without his dominance and ruthlessly single-minded pursuit of Marxist goals, the pivotal October Revolution of 1917 would not have succeeded.
In this biography the author fills in the gap left by political, economic and social historians and describes the personality of one of the most dedicated and single-minded political leaders of the 20th century. Ronald Clark is also the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Einstein...