Lenin : A Revolutionary Life

ISBN-13: 9780415206488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 311 str.

Christopher Read

Opis

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was an enigmatic leader, a resolute and audacious politician who had an immense impact on 20th century world history. Lenin's life and career have been at the center of much ideological debate for decades. The post-Soviet era has seen a revived interest and re-evaluation of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's legacy.
This new biography gives a fresh and original account of Lenin's personal life and political career. Christopher Read draws on a broad range of primary and secondary sources, making use of archive material made available in the Glasnost and post-Soviet eras. Focal points of this study are Lenin's revolutionary ascetic personality; his exploitation of cultural, educational and propaganda means; his relationship to Marxism; his changing class analysis of Russia; and his "populist" instincts.
This biography is an excellent and reliable introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-tsarist Russia.

Recenzje

'[Christpher Read has] produced a very readable, convincing portrait of a human, if not always humane Lenin...For suggestive answers to these and many more major issues of the Russian Revolution, Read's biography deserves a long shelf life.' - European Historical Quarterly

Spis treści

Contents  Introduction  1. Choosing Revolution  2. Laying the Foundations of Leninism (1896-1902)  3. Constructing Leninism  4. Imperialism, War and Revolution  5. From the Finland Station to the Winter Palace  6. From Classroom to Laboratory - Early Experiments  7. Revolutionary War  8. Re-evaluation, Succession and Testament Conclusion.  Further Reading  Timeline

O autorze

Christopher Read is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Warwick.  He is author of From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and Their Revolution, 1917-21 (1996), Culture and Power in Revolutionary Russia (1990) and The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (2001).