Volume Twenty-Seven contains the works of Lenin written between February 21 and July 27, 1918.
It includes reports, speeches and articles reflecting Lenin’s work as leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet state in the period of the struggle for peace, for Soviet Russia’s revolutionary withdrawal from the imperialist war, for consolidation of Soviet power and for the development of socialist construction during the respite that followed the conclusion of the Brest peace.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), statesman and political theorist. After the October Revolution he served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924.
This particular volume is quite crucial in getting a handle on what the immediate post-1917 thinking was, and how it evolved so rapidly in response to the challenges of war, state power, and, most interestingly, campaigns for self determination.
It's kind of hard to give a 'stars' based review for a collection of theoretical works and practical documents - but I give it five stars based on the depth of analysis and span of questions considered