The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution is a 2017 book written by activist and Trotskyist Tariq Ali, which focuses on the life of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.

Tariq broadens this image of Russian to the international appeal of Socialism and Marxism during this period of time, using the example of the historical popularity of socialism in The United States in the form of Eugene V. Debs and Emma Goldman.

Daniel Beer of The Guardian gave the book a mixed review, while praising Ali for his sympathetic portrayal of Lenin within context of the political climate of Tsarist Russia, while criticizing him for withholding criticism of many of Lenin's authoritarian and unethical actions during the Russian Civil War and as leader of The Soviet Union.

[4][5][6] JP O’ Malley writing in The American Conservative found aspects of Ali's work interesting, but that it was a "scattered affair" due to "interjects of banal Marxist slogans into his work when he runs out of ideas."

There isn’t much nuance here, and Ali seems to regard ideological opponents as traitors, hypocrites, and philistines.