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Lenin : a biography / by David Shub.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shub, David, 1887-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich.
- Heads of state--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Heads of state.
- Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 438 pages : portraits (on lining-papers) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1948.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Bitter heritage
- Seeds of revolution
- Youth
- Prison and Siberia
- The birth of Bolshevism
- The first revolution
- The lower depths
- From war to revolution
- "The freest country in the world"
- Lenin's road to Petrograd
- Spring thunder
- The July uprising
- The tide turns
- Lenin seizes power
- Dictatorship
- Lenin silences the Constituent Assembly
- Brest-Litovsk
- The beginning of terror
- In the Kremlin
- Comintern
- Kronstadt
- Dictator without vanity
- The testament
- Appendix: Essentials of Leninism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages [397]-420) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shub, David, 1887-1973. Lenin.
- OCLC:
- 639860
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