The Spark That Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics That Changed the World

by Robert Henderson and Robert Henderson

Book Overview

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian collections at the British Library, tells the story for the first time of Lenin's intriguing relationship with the enigmatic Apollinariya Yakubova - a revolutionary known to her comrades...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350344737
• ISBN13: 9781350344730
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"