Lenin: a new biography

by Volkogonov, D. A., (Dmitriĭ Antonovich)

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Traces the life of the Soviet leader, uses the secret Soviet archives to reveal new information, and argues that Lenin set in motion many of the worst excesses of the state later expanded by Stalin.

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Full title :Lenin : a new biography / Dmitri Volkogonov ; translated and edited by Harold Shukman.

Summary

Traces the life of the Soviet leader, uses the secret Soviet archives to reveal new information, and argues that Lenin set in motion many of the worst excesses of the state later expanded by Stalin.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1994

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Free Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1994

The Physical Object

Description:xxxix, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, map ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0029334357, 9780029334355
oclc:ocm30914989
LC Classification:DK254.L4
Dewey Decimal:B

Distant Sources: Genealogy ; Vladimir and Alexander ; The forerunners ; The discovery of Marxism ; Nadezhda Krupskaya ; Inessa Armand ; Financial secrets -- Master of the Order: Theorist of revolution ; The phenomenon of bolshevism ; Lenin and the Mensheviks ; The paradox of plekhanov ; The tragedy of Martov -- The Scar of October: Democratic February ; Parvus, Ganetsky and the 'German Key' ; Lenin and Kerensky ; The July rehearsal ; October and the 'Conspiracy of Equals' ; Commissars and the Constituent Assembly -- Priests of Terror: The anatomy of Brest-Litovsk ; White raiments ; Regicide ; Fanya Kaplan's shot ; The guillotine of terror -- Lenin's Entourage: The most capable man in the central committee ; The man with unlimited power ; The bolshevik tandem ; The party's favourite ; The Leninist politburo -- The One-Dimensional Society: The deceived vanguard ; Pleasant predators ; The tragedy of the intelligentsia ; Lenin and the church ; The prophet of Comintern -- The Mausoleum of Leninism: The regime and the illness ; The long agony ; The mummy and the embalming of ideas ; The inheritance and the heirs ; Lenin as history.

Subjects

15.70 history of Europe Biographies Biographies (form) Biography Chefs d'État -- Biographies -- URSS Heads of state Heads of state -- Biography -- Soviet U… History Lenin, V. I., (Vladimir Ilʹich) Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Politics Russia -- History -- 1917-1991, Soviet … Soviet Union Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics URSS -- Histoire -- 1917-1936