- 492 pages
- English
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About this book
Originally published in the UK in 1966, this was the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, and it illuminates the complex personality and explains the riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Using primary sources such as previously inacessible documents from the German, Austrian and Japanese foreign offices, and the vast holdings of the Hoover Institution, the book cuts through many comtemporaneous myths in Communist sources. The volume is a landmark in the study of the birth of Soviet Communism and its revolutionary enterprise.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface to British Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Family Background
- Parental Courtship
- The Siblings
- Childhood
- Alexander
- Two Brothers
- Student
- When Did Lenin Become a Marxist?
- What Is Russian Marxism?
- Fedosseyev
- Lenin Becomes Active
- Lenin, the Writer
- Lenin, a Professional Revolutionary
- First Steps Toward the Action Party
- Siberia
- Iskra
- Literary Success
- Organizational Build-up
- The Second Congress
- The War with Japan
- The Revolution of 1905
- The Hero at Home
- The Hero Abroad
- Amour
- Return to Struggle
- Pravda
- Deployment for War
- Malinovsky
- War is Coming
- War
- Revolutionizing
- Contacts with Austria
- Contacts with Germany
- Lenin Realizes His Power
- The Throne Collapses
- The Sealed Car
- Sudden Prominence
- Accusation of Treason
- In Hiding
- The Armed Uprising
- Chief of Government
- The Destruction of Democracy
- The Shameful Peace
- The Grind of Government
- Murder
- Lenin is Shot
- The World Revolution Aborts
- The Polish War
- The End of Love
- The Dogma Weakens
- On the Extreme Right Wing
- Sickness and Terrorism
- The Testament
- The Break With Stalin
- A Suicide Plan?
- A Bombshell
- The Third Stroke
- Isolation and Despair
- Death
- Autopsy
- Medical Murder?
- Psychological Murder?
- Burial
- Transfiguration
- Appendix: The Psychology of Destruction
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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