Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

558 Pages·2017·18.23 MB·English

by  Victor Sebestyen

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In Memory of C.H.
Contents
Cover
Also by Victor Sebestyen
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Maps
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue: The Coup d’État
1 A Nest of Gentlefolk
2 A Childhood Idyll
3 The Hanged Man
4 The Police State
5 A Revolutionary Education
6 Vladimir Ilyich – Attorney at Law
7 Nadya – A Marxist Courtship
8 Language, Truth and Logic
9 Foreign Parts
10 Prison and Siberia
11 Lenin Is Born
12 Underground Lives
13 England, Their England
14 What Is to Be Done?
15 The Great Schism – Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
16 Peaks and Troughs
17 An Autocracy Without an Autocrat
18 Back Home
19 ‘Expropriate the Expropriators’
20 Geneva – ‘An Awful Hole’
21 Inessa – Lenin in Love
22 Betrayals
23 A Love Triangle – Two into Three Will Go
24 Catastrophe – The World at War
25 In the Wilderness
26 The Last Exile
27 Revolution – Part One
28 The Sealed Train
29 To the Finland Station
30 The Interregnum
31 ‘Peace, Land and Bread’
32 The Spoils of War
33 A Desperate Gamble
34 The July Days
35 On the Run
36 Revolution – Part Two
37 Power – At Last
38 The Man in Charge
39 The Sword and Shield
40 War and Peace
41 The One-Party State
42 The Battle for Grain
43 Regicide
44 The Assassins’ Bullets
45 The Simple Life
46 Reds and Whites
47 Funeral in Moscow
48 The ‘Internationale’
49 Rebels at Sea and on Land
50 Intimations of Mortality
51 Revolution – Again
52 The Last Battle
53 ‘An Explosion of Noise’
54 Lenin Lives
Principal Characters
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
MAPS
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