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Lenin 150
On April 22, we celebrate V. I. Lenin’s 150th birth anniversary. Lenin was the chief theorist of the October Revolution of 1917, and one of the most important leaders of the new Soviet Republic and then the USSR. Three left presses – LeftWord Books (India), Expressão Popular (Brazil), and Batalla de Ideas (Argentina) – in collaboration with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research have produced a joint commemorative book called Lenin 150. This volume collects Lenin’s 1913 essay on ‘The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism’, Vladimir Mayakovsky’s epic poem written at Lenin’s death (1924), and a brief essay by Vijay Prashad on the theory and praxis of Lenin.
128 pages, ebook
Published April 22, 2020
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Vladimir Lenin
2,734 books1,971 followersVladimir 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.
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April 22, 2020
this little ebook is freely available here, from the Tricontinental.
This brief tribute to Lenin on his 150th birthday consists of a small introduction by Prashad, outlining the significance of Lenin, and ends with a short piece from the man himself on the necessity and scope of Marxist thought. Most of the book is occupied by a long, epic poem by Mayakovsky that was written after Lenin's death in memoriam.
The Mayakovsky was something of a revelation for me---a lyrical epic in many ways comparable to Pound, Whitman, Alvaro de Campos, the whole "tale of the tribe" thing---but directly engaged, unobscure, with sharp, vibrant language, like grinding an edge off a rainbow (or the thunderbolt that came before). It's fabulous.
This brief tribute to Lenin on his 150th birthday consists of a small introduction by Prashad, outlining the significance of Lenin, and ends with a short piece from the man himself on the necessity and scope of Marxist thought. Most of the book is occupied by a long, epic poem by Mayakovsky that was written after Lenin's death in memoriam.
The Mayakovsky was something of a revelation for me---a lyrical epic in many ways comparable to Pound, Whitman, Alvaro de Campos, the whole "tale of the tribe" thing---but directly engaged, unobscure, with sharp, vibrant language, like grinding an edge off a rainbow (or the thunderbolt that came before). It's fabulous.
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