Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayLenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, iek suggests that Lenin’s courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat lucidly and frontally.. New paths had to be sought, almost from scratch, for the Soviet state to survive and imagine some alternative route to the future. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as at Kronstadt in 1921. But, iek argues in this new study and collection of original texts, Lenin’s true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated in the face of the world revolution that seemed to be receding

. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes and many more. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana. Slavoj iek
About the AuthorSlavoj iek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes and many more. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana.