To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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The relevance of Lenin
WILL PODMORE recommends a contemporary historian’s rebuttal of negative assessments of Lenin, and the enduring relevance of his revolutionary thought
PRIMUS INTER PARES: Vladimir Lenin (dead center) with the delegates to the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) RCP(B) in Moscow March 21 1921
[Lev Yakovlevich Leonidov/Public domain]
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution
by Paul Le Blanc, Pluto Press, £16.99
PAUL LE BLANC is a US historian and teacher at La Roche University, Pennsylvania. In this useful book he rebuts many of the ruling class’s slanders of Lenin.
In particular, the ruling class portrays Lenin as innately dictatorial, committed only to violence and repression. Fo
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