The Spark That Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics That Changed the World

ISBN-13: 9781784538620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Robert Henderson

Opis

An exploration of the formation of Lenin's political thought through the years he spent in London at the beginning of the 1900s.

Recenzje

Henderson has woven his narrative out of a brilliant miscellany of archival sources, with crucial finds in the Hoover Institution's records of the Okhrana, or political police. Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

ContentsNote on Transliteration and CalendarsAcknowledgementsFrontispieceIntroductionChapter 1 The Little Russian Island: The First CastawaysChapter 2 'Lirochka' and Lenin - The Spark That Lit the Flame?Chapter 3 1902-1903: Iskra and Shaping the PartyChapter 4 1905: A Congress of ConspiratorsChapter 5 The London Congress of 1907 and the Triumph of BolshevismChapter 6 Two Last Visits: 1908 and 1911Postscript Apollinariya's StoryAppendixSelect BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Robert Henderson is Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the author of Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of Russian history.