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Title: Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-1923 by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich Lenin, George Fyson ISBN: 0-87348-808-3 Publisher: Pathfinder Press Pub. Date: June, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A NECESSARY BOOK FOR ANY REVOLUTIONARY!!!
Comment: "Five years after the victory of the October 1917 revolution in Russia, V.I. Lenin waged his final political struggle.

"He was fighting to maintain the communist course with which the Bolshevik Party had led the workers and peasants to power over the landlords and capitalists of the former tsarist empire and defeated the invading armies of fourteen nations.

"At issue were the burning questions of the day:

***How to forge a union of workers and peasants republics and defend the rights of historically oppressed nationalites

***The basis for the New Economic Policy and its place in the world struggle for socialism

***Strengthening the alliance between the working class and the peasantry

***Defending the state monopoly of foreign trade

"This book compiles the speeches, articles, letters, and memos in which Lenin took up the battle inside the Bolshevik Party. Many of these documents were suppressed for more than three decades by the murderous regime, headed by Joseph Stalin, that represented the bureaucratic ruling caste. Some appear here for the first time in English, including one never before published in any language" (from the back cover).

Rating: 5
Summary: A thourough denouncement of Stalinism
Comment: Vladimir Lenin, perhaps the most important historical figure in the twentieth century, not only fought against the tyranny of the capitalist class, but he also tried to fight against the growing bureaucratism in the Soviet Union that eventually led to Stalin's takeover of power. We see here his fight to spread the revolution and make it a truly a world revolution, not confined to a backwards country in Europe. He wanted to free mankind from subservience to a ruling class. The new biography of Lenin, written by a former Stalinist-turned-capitalist, is completely rebuked here. The biographer Volkoganov is a typical bourgeous seeking to denounce anything that smacks of true revolution and is quick to make friends with his new masters by writing his attack on Lenin. I suggest that anyone truly interested in Lenin read Lenin's works, and for a biography, read Trotsky's book on Lenin.

Rating: 3
Summary: Appeal not to exaggerate Lenin's "change of heart"
Comment: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remained a dedicated Communist to the last days of his life. The last two years of his life, partly covered by this collection of Lenin speeches, etc., he was not completely sane. The details of this may be found in Dmitri Volkogonov's excellent bio of Lenin--a "must." To the end of his life, Lenin favored an ever larger Soviet Union; a "Soviet of the Whole World," as he declared on many occasions; he never retreated an inch from the idea of the dictatorship of the Communist Party, though he loathed the bureaucratism that had sprung up within it. Perhaps his insanity prevented him from acknowledging that he himself was responsible for this concentration of power at the top in the hands of a few. Of course, Lenin feared the growing power of Stalin. Yet it was he, Lenin, who had created this Frankenstein Monster (e.g., by appointing Josef Djugashvili (Stalin) General Secretary of the Party in 1922). This book, in a sense, attempts to "pardon" Lenin. However, as Volkogonov and many others have pointed out (esp. in Russia since the demise of Communism there), Lenin's behavior, including that near the end of his life, remains unpardonable for its brutality and fanatical commitment to Socialism and Communism. Lenin was a hopeless elitist whose self-assuredness and arrogance, disguised with mock humility, knew no bounds.