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The fifth edition of V. I. Lenin’s Sochineniia is an imposing piece of work. Its fifty-five volumes, first published by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism between 1958 and 1965, are attractively bound, nicely printed, and reasonably priced. Perhaps for these reasons, they have sold over six hundred thousand copies in Russian alone and are now in their fourth large printing. In comparison with the preceding four editions, the fifth is far more substantial in content: the first edition of twenty-six volumes (1920–26) contained some 1500 writings by Lenin; the second and third editions of thirty volumes each (1925–32) had 2700 works; the fourth or Stalin edition of thirty-five volumes (1941, 1946–50) included 2927 items; and the fifth comprises almost 9000.

Elwood reviews \"Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921\" edited by Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniev and William G. Rosenberg.