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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tariq AliPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.346kg ISBN: 9781788735803ISBN 10: 1788735803 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 23 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAims to rescue Lenin from both liberal caricature and Soviet hagiography by recovering the realism and dynamism of his political thought -- David Sessions, New Republic * [for The Dilemmas of Lenin] * An incredibly powerful, panoramic, and insightful study of the central revolutionary figure of the twentieth century . The Dilemmas of Lenin helps attentive readers comprehend something of what happened in history, the realities of our time, and how the future could unfold if we approach it with understanding and commitment. -- Paul Le Blanc, International Socialist Review * [for The Dilemmas of Lenin] * Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist. -- Observer * [For The Extreme Centre] * Ali is indeed a kind of professional, or inveterate heretic, a writer who has made a career of dissenting from every kind of orthodoxy. -- The National * [For The Extreme Centre] * Included in The Independent's Books of the month. * Independent * For Tariq Ali, Churchill debunking, like Churchill worship, is a political act. -- David Aaronovitch * The Times * In Ali's telling, which draws on more honest existing historical scholarship than most popular biographies of Churchill, the two-times prime minister emerges not so much as deeply racist - some of his contemporaries remarked on it in shock - as profoundly authoritarian, with a soft spot for fascist strongmen, and a hostility to working-class assertion. -- Priyamvada Gopal * Prospect * Ali portrays Churchill as cruel, incompetent and blinded by prejudice * Spectator * A Marxist insult to history. -- Simon Heffer * The Telegraph * A powerful corrective...shining a light on the nasty parts of the Churchill story that his supporters conveniently ignore. This book is an unreserved polemic against the man usually celebrated for standing up to Hitler -- Martin Chilton * Independent * An essential antidote to the Churchill myth...This book could not be more timely. -- Lindsey German * Counterfire * Included in The Independent's Books of the month for May 2022 * Independent * For Tariq Ali, Churchill debunking, like Churchill worship, is a political act. -- David Aaronovitch * The Times * In Ali's telling, which draws on more honest existing historical scholarship than most popular biographies of Churchill, the two-times prime minister emerges not so much as deeply racist - some of his contemporaries remarked on it in shock - as profoundly authoritarian, with a soft spot for fascist strongmen, and a hostility to working-class assertion. -- Priyamvada Gopal * Prospect * Ali portrays Churchill as cruel, incompetent and blinded by prejudice * Spectator * A Marxist insult to history. -- Simon Heffer * The Telegraph * A powerful corrective...shining a light on the nasty parts of the Churchill story that his supporters conveniently ignore. This book is an unreserved polemic against the man usually celebrated for standing up to Hitler -- Martin Chilton * Independent * An essential antidote to the Churchill myth...This book could not be more timely. -- Lindsey German * Counterfire * A counter to popular mythology; an effort to peel back the curtain of propaganda and locate truth ... a worthy contribution in a crowded field -- Labour Hub * Talal Hangari * [Ali] seeks not so much to flush WC down the toilet of history, but to reassign him to his rightful place as one of history's most over-rated figures ... [a] highly readable book -- Donald Sassoon * Political Quarterly * The important thing about Ali's book, even after a thousand on the same subject, is that it is primarily interested in Churchill's years in service to British imperialism, and only secondarily interested in World War II, inverting the usual balance...a vital corrective. -- Alex Skopic * Current Affairs * Ali's book is a helpful corrective to the cult of Churchill that has come to dominate British culture. His study makes one thing clear: there is ultimately no path to a socialist and internationalist future without challenging this legacy. -- Liam Kennedy * Jacobin * Ali's examination remains an important corrective to the hagiographic praise that Churchill receives to this day. -- Andrew Moravcsik * Foreign Affairs * Author InformationTariq Ali has written more than two-dozen books on world history and politics-the most recent of which are The Dilemmas of Lenin, The Obama Syndrome and The Extreme Centre-as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen. He is a long-standing member of the editorial committee of New Left Review and lives in London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |