A Great Love
Alexandra Kollontai

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Published: 1981

A roman-a-clef, based on Lenin’s love affair with Inessa Armand. The author writes of emotional dependency, the need to love, the desire to live one’s own life. This novel explores loneliness, vulnerability, the power of the sexual appetite to distort judgement and the tragic element of love.

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