Lenin for Beginners

Tsars and peasants, Bloody Sunday and War Communism, Rasputin and Kerensky, Narodniks and Bolsheviks, exiles and commisars. With a cast of thousands, Lenin for Beginners brings one to the major revolutionary figures of this century within any reader’s grasp. This zany documentary comic strip is the perfect introduction to Lenin’s writings and a wonderful take-off point for anybody who wants to plunge into the tumultuous history of the Russian Revolution. Like its companion volume, Marx for Beginners, it’s accurate, understandable, and very, very funny. The following is from the books Russian Revolutionary