Title: Lenin and the making of the Soviet state
Description: This collection of primary sources allows readers to learn about Lenin through his own words and explores the complicated relationship between Lenin's actions and his ideology. Jeffrey Brooks and Georgiy Chernyavskiy have translated newly available documents that make it possible to provide a more accurate portrait of this ruthless strategist. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support and encourage students to analyze the actions and beliefs of a man who transformed world history and whose legacy continues to affect social and political movements throughout the world.
Subjects: Politics and government, Sources, History, Heads of state, Biography, Political and social views, Revolutionaries, Influence, Communism, Russia - History, History - General History, History: World, Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union, History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union), Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism, Lenin, vladimir ilich, 1870-1924, Soviet union, history
Places: Soviet Union
People: Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924)
Time periods: 1870-1924, 1917-1936