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Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Hardcover – September 19, 2017

by V. I. Lenin (Author), Slavoj Zizek (Author)

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One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today

V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original texts, Slavoj Žižek argues that his true greatness can be better grasped in the last two years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as the one at Kronstadt in 1921. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated. As the anticipated world revolution receded into the distance, new paths had to be charted if the Soviet state was to survive.

With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, Žižek suggests that Lenin’s courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat unflinchingly. In today’s world, characterized by political turbulence, economic crises and geopolitical tensions, we should revisit Lenin’s combination of sober lucidity and revolutionary determination.

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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes and many more.

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Verso (September 19, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786631881
ISBN-13: 978-1786631886
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Good Collection of Writings, Great Introduction

October 15, 2017

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This year is the centenary of the seizure of power by Lenin and the creation of the Soviet State. There have been a number of books out there memorializing the event. This is in my opinion the most satisfactory because it gives the best selection of his political thought and personal peak in his relations to his fellow revolutionaries.

The philosopher Slavoj Zizek selected the papers collected and wrote an introduction to his life, times, and thought. He takes a big picture approach, periodically wondering and offering answers as to what went wrong with the Soviet experiment, and placing Lenin in light of the present political situation.

His introduction is not only intended for intermediate or advanced students in political theory. If you have a running knowledge of world history for the last fifty or sixty years you should do fine, because this is really where Leninism takes a real beating. The collapse of Soviet Russia certainly did not help, but nor did the abdication, voluntary or otherwise, of leftist thinkers or movements. Reading between the lines, the forces which killed Leninism were already at work far before the person perished. His conflict with Stalin is seen as emblematic of tensions were have been present since the French Revolution. In addition, as with Capitalism, inherent contradictions in the revolutionary movement which brought Lenin into power hastened the ascendancy of Stalin, despite the personal antipathy between them. Ever the Hegelian, Zizek analyzes these tensions in a clear and cogent manner.

My first reaction on receiving this book was to return it, thinking, what possible relevance would Lenin have today? I kept and read the book, ultimately glad I did, because did Leninism ever have a chance to be implemented?

This is recommended and is a good introduction.

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An excellent book - brings overall thoughts on governments into current focus.

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Great and serious analysis concerning the eve and the dayafter of Bolshevik Revolution.

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What a snore.

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