Lenin: The Novel

In this epic and daring novel, Alan Brien has taken on the challenge of charting the secret storms of the soul of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - known to the world as Lenin. The book takes the form of a personal diary in which Lenin's first-person voice speaks to the reader in an intimate, dramatic narrative. From his boyhood days on the banks of the Volga under tsarist rule, through the rioting avenues of St. Petersburg, to exile in Siberia and the birth of the Soviet Union, we see through Lenin's eyes the Russia he loved and strove for, the men and women of the Revolution and, above all, the furies and fears that drove him on.