Lenin

Author : Victor Sebestyen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101871645

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Lenin by Victor Sebestyen Pdf

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin "desired the good . . . but created evil." This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs)

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781804292877

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The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin Pdf

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a ‘semi-state’ of soviets, or workers’ councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000055979474

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What is to be Done? by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : Random House
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409065807

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Conspirator by Helen Rappaport Pdf

Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th century history. It tells the story of Lenin in the long and difficult years leading up to the Russian Revolution, years that were spent constantly on the move in and around Europe in the company of his loyal and longsuffering wife Nadezhda Krupskaya. Conspirator strips away the arid politics of Lenin's official life and reveals the real man, as well as describing his many conflicts, personal and political, with those who shared his exile. It also looks at the loyal circle of women who unquestioningly supported Lenin, at Russian émigré lives in the enclaves of the cities in they lived and the risks taken in support of Lenin's vision by the wider network of Russian revolutionaries in the underground movement, both at home and abroad.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fuel Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0993191177

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Looking for Lenin by Anonim Pdf

The eerie beauty of Ukraine's Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunization.

Author : Tamás Krausz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583674611

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Reconstructing Lenin by Tamás Krausz Pdf

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and “actually-existing” socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin afresh, with sober senses trained on his historical context and how it shaped his theoretical and political contributions. Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in the making and now available in English for the first time, is an attempt to do just that. Tamás Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of György Lukács, Ferenc Tokei, and István Mészáros, makes a major contribution to a growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thought shaped by immediate political events but never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Krausz balances detailed descriptions of Lenin’s time and place with lucid explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy, socialism and utopianism.Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement; it will also introduce the English-speaking world to a profound radical scholar.

Author : Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1410217086

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Reminiscences of Lenin by Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Pdf

The reminiscences in this volume cover the period 1894 to 1917. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (1869-1939) was the wife of V. I. Lenin, was an old member of the Communist Party, a Soviet statesman and a distinguished educator. She was born in St. Petersburg, where she began her revolutionary career. Krupskaya is the author of a number of books on questions of education and pedagogics. Her Reminiscences of Lenin were written over a number of years and published in parts at different times. The present volume is the most complete of all her reminiscences of Lenin hitherto published.

Author : Vladimir Brovkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134680580

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Russia After Lenin by Vladimir Brovkin Pdf

In Russian Society and Politics 1921-1929, Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920's.

Author : Tariq Ali
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786631121

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The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali Pdf

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read. Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's thought - the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international labour movement - and explains how Lenin confronted dilemmas that still cast a shadow over the present. Is terrorism ever a viable strategy? Is support for imperial wars ever justified? Can politics be made without a party? Was the seizure of power in 1917 morally justified? Should he have parted company from his wife and lived with his lover? In The Dilemmas of Lenin, Ali provides an insightful portrait of Lenin's deepest preoccupations and underlines the clarity and vigour of his theoretical and political formulations. He concludes with an affecting account of Lenin's last two years, when he realized that "we knew nothing" and insisted that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330476331

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Lenin by Robert Service Pdf

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first complete picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides an account of one of the greatest turning points in modern history. Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service examines events such as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the one-party state, economic modernisation, dictatorship, and the politics of inter-war Europe. In discovering the origins of the USSR, he casts light on the nature of the state and society which Lenin left behind and which have not entirely disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. 'Immensely scholarly but also vivid and readable. This is a splendid book, much the best that I have ever read about Lenin ...I was overwhelmed by the power and vividness of this portrait.' Dominic Lieven, Sunday Telegraph 'He has managed skilfully to depict the surreal life of an obsessive, brilliant and stubborn individual' Guardian 'Lenin's life was politics, but Service has succeeded in keeping Lenin the man in focus throughout . . . This book deserves a place among the best studies of one of the most fascinating figures in modern history' Harold Shukman, The Times

Author : Nina Tumarkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674524314

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Lenin Lives! by Nina Tumarkin Pdf

Was the deification of Lenin a show of spontaneous affection, or a planned political operation designed to solidify the revolution with the masses? This book aims to provide the answer. Exploring the cults mystical, historical, and political aspects, the book attempts to demonstrate the galvanizing power of ritual in the establishment of the postrevolutionary regime. In a new section the author includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's new democracy.

Author : Victor Sebestyen
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474600460

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Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen Pdf

'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine 'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx The cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth. Drawing on extensive material that has only recently become available, Sebestyen's gripping biography casts an intriguing new light on the character behind the politics. In reality, Lenin was a man who loved nature as much as he loved making revolution, and his closest relationships were with women. He built a state based on terror. But he was a highly emotional man given to furious rages and deep passions. While never ignoring the politics, Sebestyen examines Lenin's inner life, his relationship with his wife and his long love affair with Inessa Armand, the most romantic and beguiling of Bolsheviks. These two women were as significant as the men - Stalin or Trotsky - who created the world's first Communist state with him.

Author : Alan Shandro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004271067

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Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony by Alan Shandro Pdf

In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony Alan Shandro traces the emergence of the concept of hegemony in Lenin's engagement with the concrete characteristics of the class struggle in Russia and thereby clarifies how the concept works.

Author : Lars T. Lih
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004131200

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Lenin Rediscovered by Lars T. Lih Pdf

This commentary to Lenin's landmark "What is to be Done?" (1902) provides hitherto unavailable contextual information about Lenin's outlook and aims that undermines previous interpretations. It challenges established views about Marxism, 'revolutionary Social Democracy' and Bolshevism.

Author : Marcel Liebman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1608466728

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Leninism Under Lenin by Marcel Liebman Pdf

A winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize Liebmann highlights democratic dimensions in Lenin's thinking as it developed over 25 years.