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Lenin--a biography / Robert Service.
Van Pelt Library DK254.L4 S4323 2000
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Van Pelt Library DK254.L4 S4323 2000
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Service, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich.
- Heads of state--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Heads of state.
- Soviet Union.
- Revolutionaries--Russia--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Russia.
- Russia--Politics and government--1894-1917.
- Politics and government.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 561 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Lenin's politics still reverberate around the world even after the death of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence. Yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography reveals Lenin in his full complexity as a revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person. 50 halftones. 3 maps.
- Contents:
- 1 The Rebel Emerges
- 1. The Ulyanovs and the Blanks 13
- 2. Childhood in Simbirsk 1870-1885 31
- 3. Deaths in the Family 1886-1887 47
- 4. The Ploughing of the Mind 1887-1888 61
- 5. Paths to Revolution 1889-1893 74
- 6. St Petersburg 1893-1895 91
- 7. To Siberian Italy 1895-1900 107
- 2 Lenin and the Party
- 8. An Organisation of Revolutionaries 1900-1902 129
- 9. 'Holy Fire' 1902-1904 147
- 10. Russia From Far and Near 1905-1907 166
- 11. The Second Emigration 1908-1911 184
- 12. Almost Russia! 1912-1914 202
- 13. Fighting for Defeat 1914-1915 222
- 14. Lasting Out 1915-1916 235
- 3 Seizing Power
- 15. Another Country February to April 1917 253
- 16. The Russian Cockpit May to July 1917 270
- 17. Power for the Taking July to October 1917 287
- 18. The October Revolution October to December 1917 308
- 19. Dictatorship Under Siege Winter 1917-1918 324
- 20. Brest-Litovsk January to May 1918 338
- 21. At Gunpoint May to August 1918 356
- 4 Defence of the Revolution
- 22. War Leader 1918-1919 373
- 23. Expanding the Revolution April 1919 to April 1920 391
- 24. Defeat in the West 1920 406
- 25. The New Economic Policy January to June 1921 421
- 26. A Question of Survival July 1921 to July 1922 435
- 27. Disputing to the Last September to December 1922 451
- 28. Death in the Big House 1923-1924 464
- Lenin: The Afterlife 481.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674003306
- OCLC:
- 43311809
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