Lenin: The Novel

by Alan Brien

Book Overview

In this epic and daring novel, Alan Brien has taken on the challenge of charting the secret storms of the soul of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - known to the world as Lenin. The book takes the form of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068807944X
• ISBN13: 9780688079444
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 735 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Gripping! A Life Condensed In a Thoroughly Digestable Digest

A fictional diary, this Lenin's tale through his own eyes, starting from early boyhood until shortly before his death. Though some 700 pages, it is more exhaustive than exhausting, and so awfully entertaining I daresay for a month I couldn't put it down. While no substitute for Trotsky's history of the Revolution, this is a historical distillation bound to give an insight into both Lenin and his times. Alan Brien has worked an undiscovered masterpiece!