Description:
Vladimir Lenin's seminal 1917 economic treatise analyzing how monopoly capitalism and finance capital drive global imperialism and geopolitical conflict.
Brief description: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. As the leader of the Bolshevik Party and the architect of the 1917 October Revolution, he served as the founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Lenin developed Marxist theory into what became known as Marxism-Leninism, producing foundational socioeconomic texts that profoundly shaped 20th-century geopolitical thought and global revolutionary movements.