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LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924). O voine 1914-1918 [The war 1914-19180]. Moscow: Krasnaia Nov, 1924. First edition of this compilation of Lenin’s essays on the First World War, edited by N.N. Popov. Lenin saw the deepest of connection between the Great War and the Revolution. He maintained that increasing inequality in the capitalist powers, rather than a drive to national self-determination, was the underlying cause of the war. Wealth and power, and ultimately ‘financial world supremacy’ were the real drive. Since 1917 Lenin credited the Great War with ‘vastly accelerating the course of world history’ by ‘engendering world-wide crises of unparalleled intensity– economic, political, national, and international’. Octavo (230 x 157mm). Uncut and partly unopened (light browning, title a little soiled.) Original red and black printed wrappers (spine ends chipped, edges worn, lightly soiled). Provenance : early ink numbering (’76, cover and title) - unidentified stamp to upper wrapper and p.15.