Lenin
Abraham Resnick
A biography of the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution who formulated the official Communist ideology and became the first head of the Soviet state.
Read Time: ~4.7 hr
Mao Tse-tung and his China
by Albert Marrin (1989)
About this book
Traces the life of the revolutionary who led the struggle to make China a Communist nation in 1949 and unleashed the horror of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960's.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreMao Tse-tung and his China Lead Character
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