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</div><div class="book-cover">[[Image:Lenin_2017_by_slavoj_zizek.jpeg|thumb|300px]]</div><div class="book-descr">'''One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Zizek 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 Zizek 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.
