Highly innovative and theoretically incisive Two Lenins is the first booklength anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai SsorinChaikov grounds his theoretical exploration in fascinating ethnographic and historical material on two Lenins the first is the famed Soviet leader of the early twentieth century and the second is a Siberian Evenki hunter nicknamed Lenin who experienced the collapse of the USSR during the 1