Two Lenins

Know about the book -

Two Lenins is written by Nikolai V. Ssorin-Chaikov and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 191280820X (ISBN 10) and 9781912808205 (ISBN 13).

Ssorin-Chaikov examines Vladimir Lenin at the height of his reign in 1920s Soviet Russia, focusing especially on his relationship with American businessperson Armand Hammer. He casts this scene against the second Lenin -- the hunter on the far end of the country, in Siberia, at the far end of the century, the 1990s, who is tasked with improvising postsocialism in the economic and political uncertainties of post-Soviet transition. Moving from Moscow to Siberia to New York, and traveling form [sic] the 1920s to the 1960s to the 1990s, Ssorin-Chaikov takes readers beyond a simple global history or cross-temporal comparison, instead using these two figures to enact an ethnographic study of the very category of time that we use to bridge different historical contexts." -- Page [4] of cover.