Reconstructing Lenin
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Reconstructing Lenin

An Intellectual Biography

  1. 544 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reconstructing Lenin

An Intellectual Biography

About this book

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and "actually-existing" socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin afresh, with sober senses trained on his historical context and how it shaped his theoretical and political contributions. Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in the making and now available in English for the first time, is an attempt to do just that.Tamás Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of György Lukács, Ferenc Tokei, and István Mészáros, makes a major contribution to a growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thought shaped by immediate political events but never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Krausz balances detailed descriptions of Lenin's time and place with lucid explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy, socialism and utopianism.Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement; it will also introduce the English-speaking world to a profound radical scholar.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Who Was Lenin?
  8. 2. Russian Capitalism and the Revolution
  9. 3. Organization and Revolution
  10. 4. The War and the National Question
  11. 5. The State and Revolution
  12. 6. Dictatorship and Democracy in Practice
  13. 7. World Revolution: Method and Myth
  14. 8. The Theory of Socialism—Possibility or Utopia?
  15. Summary Comments in Place of a Postscript
  16. Chronology of Russian History, 1917–1924
  17. Biographical Sketches
  18. List of Photographs and Illustrations
  19. Bibliography
  20. Notes
  21. Index