Lenin’s Last Struggle, by Moshe Lewin. Faber and Faber. 36s.

Lenin’s Last Letters and Articles, Progress Publishers, Moscow.

Lenin made his last public speech in November 1922 at the Moscow Soviet. He died in January 1924, but had been unable to speak or write since the previous March. So the letters he wrote between December 1922 and March 1923 were his last.