Revolution!

Accompanied by a range of arresting images, Revolution! is a compilation of some of Lenin's most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters, and recorded conversations. These proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth century's most defining political figures.

'Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.'

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used his words to launch a soaring critique of imperialist society and to theorize the development of the world's first socialist state. Much of his writing was translated into English in order to further the Socialist cause.

This compilation of Lenin's most famous sayings exposes his views on topics ranging from democracy to terrorism, from religion to Stalin's untrustworthiness, and from education to music. Accompanied by a range of arresting images, including contemporary propaganda posters, photographs, portraits, illustrations, and Soviet art, these aphoristic proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of pre- and post-Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth century's most defining political figures.