In the spring of 1917, the German spy service sensed a sure-fire means of persuading Russia to make a separate peace and exit the Great War. Czar Nicholas II had abdicated in the face of mass protests ...

THE LIFE OF LENIN by Louis Fischer. 703 pages. Harper & Row. $10. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LENIN by Robert Payne. 672 pages. Simon & Schuster. $8.50. LENIN: THE COMPULSIVE REVOLUTIONARY by Stefan Possony ...

THE LETTERS OF LENIN—Translated & edited by Elizabeth Hill & Doris Mudie— Harcourt, Brace ($4). Of the thousands of letters written by Vladimir Ilich Ulianov in his 54-year life, about 1,000 are left.

Mehring Books is pleased to announce the new 1917 Centenary Edition of Tsar to Lenin, one of the greatest film documentaries of the 20th century. It is now available for the sale price of $12.95, ...

The German “sealed train” that gave Vladimir I Lenin safe passage from exile in Switzerland through wartime Germany to Russia in April 1917, in the aftermath of the overthrow of Russia’s monarchy that ...

LENIN: THE MAN, THE DICTATOR, AND THE MASTER OF TERROR By Victor Sebestyen Pantheon Books, $25, 569 pages Let not October pass by without proper notice of the 100th anniversary of one of the greater ...

HE LIES under bulletproof glass, lit up with red rays. He has hardly changed since a Pravda essayist, seeing him dead in 1924, wrote: “His face is calm, and he is ...