Books like Lenin in Zurich by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Crime and Punishment is a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of a young man who schemes to murder a pawnbroker to fund good deeds.

A future dystopian novel set in a highly regulated One State society that emphasizes logical reasoning and mass surveillance.

A Russian novel about a bitter, isolated civil servant who criticizes emerging Western philosophy and attacks Nikolay Chernyshevsky's 'What Is to Be Done?'.

A political and cultural epic set during the tumultuous 1940s and 1950s, focusing on Washington, D.C., Hollywood, and New York, with characters like Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, and Joseph Alsop.

In this comprehensive and dynamic Deutscher Prize winning work, Liebman rises about the dogmatism and sterility that plague most appraisals of Lenin, and persuasively makes the case that the Russian Revolutionary's political ideas have an enduring relevance for today's activists. --

A novel exploring the final years of a renowned writer caught in the conflict between his beloved wife and the Tolstoyan movement, with a compelling portrayal of a genius at the crossroads of his life and legacy.

"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read. On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's thoughtthe turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international labour movementand explains how Lenin confronted dilemmas that still cast a shadow over the present. Is terrorism ever a viable strategy? Is support for imperial wars ever justified? Can politics be made without a party? Was the seizure of power in 1917 morally justified? Should he have parted company from his wife and lived with his lover? In The Dilemmas of Lenin, Ali provides an insightful portrait of Lenin's deepest preoccupations and underlines the clarity and vigour of his theoretical and political formulations. He concludes with an affecting account of Lenin's last two years, when he realized that 'we knew nothing' and insisted that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die."--Publisher information.

'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener* Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.