num_pages: 176
description: Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the pravtical realitites of a vast, complex and backward Russia.
language: English
title: Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution
titlecomplete: Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution
genres: History, Philosophy, Economics, Graphic Novels, Russia, War, Biography, Comics, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 318
series: Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book
publisher: Icon,Totem Books