Lenin Author:David Shub Savior, Destroyer, Idealist, Machiavelli-Lenin was all these and more. The doctrines of Leninism have spread far beyond his native Russia to the modern "Third World," where they have guided such revolutionary leaders as Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, Che Guevara, and Ho Chi Minh. — This vivid and penetrating biography portrays not only Lenin the man... more », but also the violent times that shaped his vision: the bloody struggles in Czarist Russia, the years of exile and imprisonment, and the explosive events of 1917 that gave birth to a new and powerful nation.« less