"I have not yet come across anything which captures so well the complexities of Lenin's positions, or which does so with anything like the same combination of commitment and detachment." --Ralph Miliband "From Leninism Under Lenin there emerges a living and eminently revolutionary Lenin, not a 'blunted' one -- that is, a Lenin who sometimes hesitates and makes mistakes, who seeks his way forward with the help of theory, which is not a ready-made answer to every problem. There is a striking similarity with the masterly biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher." --Ernest Mandel.