Routledge library editions
Subtitle: Vladimir Lenin
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge library editions. Vladimir Lenin; Routledge library editions
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2270
ISBN-13: 9781315204383; 9781351790840; 9781351790864; 9781351790857; 9780415792745
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Biografie; Heads of state; Revolutionaries; Statesmen; Biography; Juvenile literature; Chefs d'État; Révolutionnaires; Hommes d'État; Biographies; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; HISTORY; General; Modern; 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / General
Description: Originally published between 1926 and 1984, the 6 volumes in this set: Discuss the problems of Leninism and socialist construction, as well as the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War. Give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Provide illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. Include the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, explaining the complex personality and riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Critique certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Reconsider the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century.
Notes: Originally published between 1926 and 1984, the 6 volumes in this set: Discuss the problems of Leninism and socialist construction, as well as the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War. Give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Provide illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. Include the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, explaining the complex personality and riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Critique certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Reconsider the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century.
Table of contents: title: 1. Marx, Lenin, and the Science of Revolution Max Eastman 2. Lenin and the end of politics A.J. Polan 3. Lenin-The compulsive revolutionary Stefan T. Possony 4. Leninism Volume 1 Joseph Stalin, trans Eden & Cedar Paul5. Leninism Volume 2 Joseph Stalin, trans Cedar and Eden Paul 6. Lenin and his Rivals Donald W. Treadgold