Title: Lenin and the Russian Revolution /
Authors: Salomoni, Antonella.
Publisher: Interlink,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,; Soviet Union History
Abstract: Contains over one hundred archival photographs, color maps, and illustrations depicting the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Communism under Lenin.
Contents: 1. The empire of the Czars -- The age of reform -- The crisis of the old regime -- The Revolution of 1905 -- Ethnic groups in the Russian empire (map) -- The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) -- The spread of Marxism in Russia -- Occupation : revolutionary -- 2. The 1917 Revolution -- The days of February -- The Bolsheviks take power -- Peace, land, and the workers in power -- February's man -- The Scythians -- The Sovnarkom -- Land for the peasants -- The dissolution of the constituent assembly -- 3. From treaty to Civil War -- The illusion of peace -- A "besieged fortress" -- The nationalities : the case of the Ukraine -- The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (map) -- 1917 and Western Marxists -- The resistance of the "greens" -- The Civil War (map) -- A ministry of nationalities -- Makhno, the anarchist Cossack -- 4. War and experimentation -- Violence and terror -- A new society -- Development according to Lenin -- The Tchekist -- Trotsky, theoretician of the permanent revolution -- The Romanov Dynasty -- The degeneracy of the Soviets -- 5. War communism -- Communism and distribution -- Down with money! -- The end of the Civil War and revolts -- Workers' wage -- Bolshevik psychology through Menshevik eyes -- A Western writer in Soviet Russia -- Children and the revolution -- Trotsky's tract to the Kronstadt rebel -- 6. The new economic policy -- The end of war communism -- The famine of 1921 -- Market, exchange, and trade -- Crisis in the party -- Demographic consequence of the war -- A letter on famine -- The NEP according to a female Bolshevik militant -- Conclusion. The birth of the USSR -- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (map).