The Unknown Lenin : From the Secret Archive / Eric A. Havelock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Havelock, Eric A., Author.

Contributor:

Pipes, Richard.

Brandenberger, David.

Fitzpatrick, Catherine A.

Series:

Annals of Communism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Archives.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich.

Heads of state--Archives--Soviet Union.

Heads of state.

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

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains newly released documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare Lenin the man and the politician, leaving little doubt that he was a ruthless and manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals.Edited and introduced by the eminent scholar Richard Pipes in collaboration with Y.A. Buranov of the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History in Moscow, the documents date from 1886 through the end of Lenin's life. They reveal, among other things, that:• Lenin's purpose in invading Poland in 1920 was not merely to sovietize that country but to use it as a springboard for the invasion of Germany and England;• Lenin took money from the Germans (here we have the first incontrovertible evidence for this);• in 1919 Lenin issued instructions to the Communist authorities in the Ukraine not to accept Jews in the Soviet government of that republic;• as late as 1922 Lenin believed in the imminence of social revolution in the West, and he planned subversion in Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, and other countries;• Lenin had little regard for Trotsky's judgment on important matters and relied heavily on Stalin;• Lenin assiduously tracked dissident intellectuals and urged repressive action or deportation;• Lenin launched a political offensive against the Orthodox Church, ordering that priests who resisted seizure of church property be shot--"the more the better."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments by Yury A. Buranov

Works Frequently Cited

Political and Governmental Organizations

Note on the Documents

Introduction

Lenin A Biographical Sketch

From the Secret Archive

Afterword

Appendix

Document and Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300163643

0300163649

OCLC:

1024049281