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Vladimir Ulyanov,
China Miéville • October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Vladimir Ulyanov,
China Miéville • October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

Avec Que faire ? qui date de 1902, Lénine s’inscrit à nos yeux dans la lignée de Filippo Buonarroti (dont il n’avait sans doute jamais entendu parler) et d’Auguste Blanqui (avec lequel il a toujours marqué ses distances, « blanquiste » sous sa plume étant loin d’être un compliment). Tout dans cette lignée repose sur un parti de révolutionnaires pro
... See moreEric Hazan • La dynamique de la révolte: Sur des insurrections passées et d'autres à venir (LA FABRIQUE) (French Edition)
of two Russian figures—Vladimir Lenin and the much lesser known Vladislav Surkov, a former postmodernist theater director who’s been described as “Putin’s Rasputin” and the Kremlin’s propaganda puppet master—informs many of the troubling political and social dynamics at work in the post-truth era.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Lenin specialized in promises he
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

In order to carry out a struggle against bureaucracy, Lenin advocated the setting up of a “Commission on Workers and Peasants Inspection” (RABKRIN), as the highest arbiter and guardian of party morality and as a weapon against alien elements in the Soviet state apparatus. At the centre of RABKRIN, Lenin placed a man whom he respected for his organi... See more
Lenin's Last Struggle - Revolutionary Communists of America
