Trotsky on Lenin
“Fascinating . . . full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin’s single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia.” —The Guardian
 
Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin’s fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries.
 
Written shortly after its subject’s death, On Lenin covers the period of revolutionary struggle leading up to 1917 as well as the early years of Bolshevik power. We see a man totally committed to the revolutionary cause, whose legacy was later corrupted under the Soviet Union’s Stalinist degeneration. Young Lenin, meanwhile, describes his early years and conversion to Marxism, dispelling many of the myths later created by Soviet hagiography in the process. This is the essential guide for anyone wanting to understand Lenin as a thinker, active revolutionary, and personality.
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Trotsky on Lenin
“Fascinating . . . full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin’s single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia.” —The Guardian
 
Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin’s fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries.
 
Written shortly after its subject’s death, On Lenin covers the period of revolutionary struggle leading up to 1917 as well as the early years of Bolshevik power. We see a man totally committed to the revolutionary cause, whose legacy was later corrupted under the Soviet Union’s Stalinist degeneration. Young Lenin, meanwhile, describes his early years and conversion to Marxism, dispelling many of the myths later created by Soviet hagiography in the process. This is the essential guide for anyone wanting to understand Lenin as a thinker, active revolutionary, and personality.
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Trotsky on Lenin

Trotsky on Lenin

by Leon Trotsky
Trotsky on Lenin

Trotsky on Lenin

by Leon Trotsky

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“Fascinating . . . full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin’s single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia.” —The Guardian
 
Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin’s fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries.
 
Written shortly after its subject’s death, On Lenin covers the period of revolutionary struggle leading up to 1917 as well as the early years of Bolshevik power. We see a man totally committed to the revolutionary cause, whose legacy was later corrupted under the Soviet Union’s Stalinist degeneration. Young Lenin, meanwhile, describes his early years and conversion to Marxism, dispelling many of the myths later created by Soviet hagiography in the process. This is the essential guide for anyone wanting to understand Lenin as a thinker, active revolutionary, and personality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608462933
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 11/04/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 557
Sales rank: 870,206
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.

Table of Contents

Part I The Young Lenin

Foreword Max Eastman xv

Foreword Maurice Friedberg xv

1 Homeland 1

2 The Family 13

3 The Revolutionary Path of the Intelligentsia 23

4 The Elder Brother 37

5 The 1880s 45

6 The First of March, 1887 55

7 Childhood and School Years 67

8 The Stricken Family 83

9 The Father and His Two Sons 97

10 The Preparations Begin 113

11 Under the Cover of Reaction 131

12 In Samara 145

13 A Year of Famine. Law Practice 161

14 Landmarks of Growth 171

15 The Young Lenin 185

Part II On Lenin

Introduction 199

Publishing History 213

Foreword 215

1 Lenin and the Old Iskra 217

2 On the Eve 249

3 The Uprising 261

4 Brest-Litovsk 269

5 The Dispersal of the Constituent Assembly 279

6 The Business of Government 287

7 The Czechoslovaks and the Left Social Revolutionaries 299

8 Lenin on the Rostrum 305

9 Lenin's National Characteristics 311

10 The Philistine and the Revolutionary 315

11 The True and the False 323

12 Children on Lenin 339

13 Lenin Wounded 349

14 Lenin Ill 355

15 Lenin Is Dead 361

Notes 363

Index 373

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