Lenin 2017

The renowned and controversial Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, makes his own statement on the continued relevance of the Russian Revolution, a hundred years on. Shows why Lenin's thought is still important today.

About the author

Slavoj Zizek 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, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: s. I. Lenin, V I Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Slavoj Zizek
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781786631886
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-188-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 219 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Revolutions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Russia, European History, Biography: historical, political & military, PHILOSOPHY / Political, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Russian Revolution, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, Bolsheviks; Lenin; Russian Revolution