Lenin

The complete biography of V. I. Lenin (1870–1924) is a revision of texts, actions, partnerships, conflicts, and ideas of the main character. The author methodically follows the outcast philosopher who managed to change the world and find himself at the top of the social hierarchy: from Shushenskoe to Capri, from "What Is to Be Done?" to "State and Revolution", from the underground to the Kremlin. The reader, having learned how the one who seemed "more alive than all the living" a hundred years ago managed his life, and who has become "more dead than all the dead" in modern counter-revolutionary Russia, will see that "Lenin" is more than the sum of historical events: a space, a tool, and an environment for dissent; an inexhaustible source of images, precedents, alternatives, utopian ideas, and pragmatic practices; a code to decode today's reality - and insurance against getting stuck in a bad infinity.