Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin : The Intelligentsia and Power / Philip Pomper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomper, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents a psychological approach to the biographies of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin by focusing on critical moments throughout their lives to examine and interpret the formation and transformation of their personalities in the family and school environment, in revolutionary politics, and in power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Dates and Transliterations

1. The Ul'ianovs

2. Alexander Ul'ianov, Terrorist

3. Vladimir Ul'ianov, Substitute Revolutionary

4. Moratorium and Apprenticeship

5. Exile and Emigration

6. Lenin and Plekhanov

7. The Emergence of Leninism

8. 1905

9. The Bronsteins

10. The Impostor

11. Lev Bronstein's Two Conversions

12. Leon Trotsky, Romantic Exile

13. Trotsky Against Lenin

14. Trotsky in 1905

15. Lenin at Loose Ends

16. Iosif Dzhugashvili Becomes Koba

17. Koba: From Apprentice to Journeyman

18. The Travils of Russian Social Democracy

19. Philosophical Interlude

20. The Death and Rebirth of Bolshevism

21. Lenin in Isolation

22. Lenin, Trotsky, and World War I

23. 1917: The Return of the Exiles

24. Trotsky and the Bolsheviks

25. Lenin's First Bid for Power

26. The Bolsheviks in Extremis

27. Lenin's Utopia

28. Reversal: On the Attack

29. October 1917

30. The Travails of Power

31. Crisis: Brest-Litovsk

32. The Civil War: Trotsky Versus Stalin

33. War Communism

34. Lenin Against Trotsky

35. 1921: Year of Crisis and Retreat

36. Lenin's Last Campaigns

37. The "Testament"

38. Trotsky's "New Course"

39. Lenin's Death and Trotsky's Decline

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-231-88553-9

OCLC:

1100459451