Revised and expanded reissue of the book that became a classic in 1960.
Lenin: Life and Works is more than a biography. It analyzes in depth the political thought of the great Russian Marxist and strategic statesman, Vladimir I. Lenin.
Moniz Bandeira takes us in the footsteps of the young Lenin—the strongholds of social and political movements, the Russian crisis, the formation of the social-democratic, socialist, and communist parties until the fall of the Tsarist regime and the victory of the revolution, the civil war, the invasion of Russian territory by the Allies, the formation, contradictions, and dissidence of the Communist Party (CP) and the worker/peasant and labor movements in the early years of the revolution. The author highlights the contradictions of a politician whose work, actions, and individual character went far beyond the iron will to fight for revolutionary change. The book encourages the reader to reflect on the crisis of the left by bringing to the present day, in a way never repeated, the events of what was the greatest revolution of the 20th century.