Lenin's last struggle / Moshé Lewin ; translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith, with a new introduction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewin, Moshe, 1921-2010.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Ann Arbor Paperbacks For The Study Of Russian And Soviet History And Politics

Standardized Title:

Dernier combat de Lénine. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the great political strategists of his era, V. I. Lenin continues to attract historical interest, yet his complex personality eludes full understanding. This new edition of Moshe Lewin's classic political biography, including an afterword by the author, suggests new approaches for studying the Marxist visionary and founder of the Soviet state. Lenin's Last Struggle offers invaluable insights into the rise of the Bolshevik party and the Soviet Union, a saga complicated by complex strategic battles among the leaders of Lenin's generation: leaders whose names are universally known, but whose personalities and motivations are even now not sufficiently understood. Moshe Lewin was a collective farm worker in the USSR and a soldier in the Soviet army. He later became director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, a fellow of the Kennan Institute, a senior fellow of Columbia University's Russian Institute, and is now emeritus professor of history at The University of Pennsylvania.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Glossary of Russian Terms; Chronology of Events; The Lenin-Stalin Imbroglio: Introduction to the New Edition; 1. A Dictatorship in the Void; 2. The NEP: An Enigma; 3. The Eclipse of Lenin; 4. Stalin, Trotsky and the Georgians; 5. The Sick Man and the Watcher; 6. Lenin's ""Testament""; 7. ""The Clandestine Affair""; 8. Russia Between West and East; 9. The Reform of the Governmental Structures; 10. If Lenin Had Lived...; Appendixes; Biographical Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-180) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612604942

9781282604940

1282604945

9780472026678

0472026674

OCLC:

824100815