Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-1923

In the early 1920s Lenin waged a political battle in the Communist Party leadership in the USSR to maintain the course that had enabled workers and peasants to overthrow the tsarist empire, carry out the first socialist revolution, and begin building a world communist movement. The issues posed in this fight--from the leadership's class composition, to the worker-peasant alliance and battle against national oppression--remain central to world politics today. Also available in: Spanish