Lenin's revolution / Stuart Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Stuart.

Series:

Humanities Insights

History insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich.

Communism--Russia.

Communism.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An exciting acount and analysis of Lenin's role in the Russian Revolution and the creation of the Soviet system. How did a revolutionary leader who was frequently surprised by events and was often compelled to observe them from abroad finally seize power"

Contents:

Copyright and Licence

Title page

Contents

About the author

Preface

1.1 The Communist Manifesto

1.2 Student revolutionaries

1.3 Lenin's early Marxism

Chapter 2. The Making of a Bolshevik

2.1 Prison and Exile

2.2 Revolution by journalism

2.3 Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

2.4 Russian Robespierre?

Chapter 3 Dress Rehearsal 1904"1907

3.1 "Bloody Sunday"

3. 2 Organising for revolution

3.3 Potemkin Mutiny

3.4 Fourth Congress (1906)

3.5 Lenin and the Duma

Chapter 4 Visions in Exile: 1908-1916

4.1 Bolshevik disagreements

4.2 Defining the Party line

4.3 Malinovsky's secret agent

4.4 International perspectives

4.5 Opposing patriotism

4.6 Redefining capitalism

Chapter 5. 1917: February Revolution

5.1 Absentee revolutionary

5.2 Duma and Soviet

5.3 Leaving Switzerland

5.4 Letters from Afar

5.5 The Finland Station

Chapter 6. 1917: Towards October

6.1 "April Theses"

6.2 "All power to the Soviets"

6.3 July Days

6.4 Kornilov

6.5 "History will not forgive us"

6.6 Relying on Trotsky

Chapter 7. Shaping the Revolution

7.1 Armed vanguard

7.2 Towards Brest-Litovsk

7.3 Constituent Assembly

7.4 Saving the Revolution

Chapter 8. Leninist legacy

8.1 Tradition of Terror

8.2 Red Army

8.3 New Economic Policy: reversing priorities

8.4 Revival of bureaucracy

8.5 One-party government

8.6 Communism: home and abroad.

8.7 Government by propaganda

Lenin's Revolutionaries: a checklist

Guidance on further study: critical bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-04045-6

9786612040450

1-84760-054-9

OCLC:

697474333