Download or read book Lenin on Literature and Art written by Vladimir I. Lenin and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.