Lenin
39 hrs. 3 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lev Danilkin
Author
Lev Danilkin
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Description
What do we really know about Lenin? Not the photo from schoolbooks and not the monument, but the man?
Writer and journalist Lev Danilkin invites us to rethink this figure—freeing him from stereotypes—and to conduct a comprehensive reassessment of Vladimir Ilyich’s personality. Before us unfolds a detailed biography: from provincial Simbirsk and Siberian exile to emigration, revolutionary upheavals, and Kremlin offices; from theoretical debates and underground work to the building of a new state.
The author considers Lenin’s figure as a key to understanding today’s processes. Through meticulous analysis of his writings, actions, alliances, and conflicts, Danilkin reveals a code that helps us make sense of present-day reality: the mechanisms of political transformation, the symptoms of state crises, the nature of violence, and the forms of resistance. The book raises sharp questions: what is the true cost of revolutionary change? Where is the line of what is permissible? When do utopian ideals turn into terror?
In 2017, the novel received the First Prize of the “Big Book” and the “Book of the Year” award in the “Prose” category.
Listen to a book about a philosopher who achieved absolute power over a significant portion of the globe, masterfully performed by Grigory Peryelya.
Writer and journalist Lev Danilkin invites us to rethink this figure—freeing him from stereotypes—and to conduct a comprehensive reassessment of Vladimir Ilyich’s personality. Before us unfolds a detailed biography: from provincial Simbirsk and Siberian exile to emigration, revolutionary upheavals, and Kremlin offices; from theoretical debates and underground work to the building of a new state.
The author considers Lenin’s figure as a key to understanding today’s processes. Through meticulous analysis of his writings, actions, alliances, and conflicts, Danilkin reveals a code that helps us make sense of present-day reality: the mechanisms of political transformation, the symptoms of state crises, the nature of violence, and the forms of resistance. The book raises sharp questions: what is the true cost of revolutionary change? Where is the line of what is permissible? When do utopian ideals turn into terror?
In 2017, the novel received the First Prize of the “Big Book” and the “Book of the Year” award in the “Prose” category.
Listen to a book about a philosopher who achieved absolute power over a significant portion of the globe, masterfully performed by Grigory Peryelya.
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