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Author: James Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0415673968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the development of Lenin's thinking on violence, tracing the evolution of his thinking from the late 19th century, showing the impact of the First World War, and examining the Bolshevik seizure of power.
Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 0195316991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The definitive work on Stalin's purges, the author's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Provides accounts of on everything form the three great 'Moscow Trials' to methods of obtaining confessions, the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. On the fortieth anniversary of thew first edition, it is remarkable how many of the most disturbing conclusions have born up under the light of fresh evidence." --
Author: Victor Sebestyen
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 1101871644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin "desired the good . . . but created evil." This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs)
Author: Hellmut Andics
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tariq Ali
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 178663113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe secret life of the man who reshaped Russia Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read. On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin’s thought—the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international labour movement—and explains how Lenin confronted dilemmas that still cast a shadow over the present. Is terrorism ever a viable strategy? Is support for imperial wars ever justified? Can politics be made without a party? Was the seizure of power in 1917 morally justified? Should he have parted company from his wife and lived with his lover? In The Dilemmas of Lenin, Ali provides an insightful portrait of Lenin’s deepest preoccupations and underlines the clarity and vigour of his theoretical and political formulations. He concludes with an affecting account of Lenin’s last two years, when he realized that “we knew nothing” and insisted that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die.
Author: Paul R. Gregory
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0300152787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original analysis of the workings of the Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin illuminates the ways in which terror and repression in the Soviet Union were used during this period.
Author: James Harris
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-07-11
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0199655669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians on the subject of Stalin's Terror in the 1930s, underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives in the field.
Author: Leon Trotsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1317744624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky’s most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that dominated the 1920s and ‘30s. Trotsky’s intention is "far away from any thought of defending terrorism in general". Rather, he seeks to promote an historical justification for the Revolution, by demonstrating that history has set up the ‘revolutionary violence of the progressive class’ against the ‘conservative violence of the outworn classes’. The argument is developed in response to the influential Marxist intellectual Karl Kautsky, who refuted Trotsky’s ‘militarisation of labour’ and Lenin’s wholesale rejection of a ‘bloodless revolution’. The introduction, written for the second edition of 1935, presents Trotsky’s reflections on the similarities between Kautsky and the burgeoning British Labour Party: specifically, it recapitulates Trotsky’s belief that revolution conducted according to the norms of Parliamentarianism is no revolution at all.
Author: James Mary Ryan
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis is a systematic and comprehensive narrative study of violence in the thought of V.I. Lenin (1870-1924) throughout his political career and a study of his practice of state violence as leader of early Soviet Russia. It addresses the question of the relative importance of ideology and circumstances/events in explaining early Soviet state violence, specifically through a study of Lenin. The thesis argues that ideology may be considered to provide the primary explanatory framework of early Soviet state violence, from a {u2018}top-down{u2019} perspective, but in a way that accommodates the complexity of this phenomenon and the interaction between ideas and circumstances/events. It begins by examining Lenin{u2019}s ideas in their context of genesis, late tsarist Russia, before elucidating the significance of the First World War upon Lenin{u2019}s theory and practice of revolution and violence during the war years and in their aftermath, and then examines Lenin{u2019}s theory and practice of violence as leader of state. The thesis rejects, as most scholars have for at least two decades, the idea that explanation should be sought in either ideology or circumstances, and it rejects the simplistic idea of ideological determinism or ideological causation. It seeks not to discover what caused Bolshevik and early Soviet state violence as such, but rather to contribute to its explanation. Ideological primacy in a non-causal explanatory sense suggests that the beliefs and understandings of Lenin{u2019}s Marxist ideology as it developed in response to events provided the principal orientation for and justification of his political practice, and {u2018}explanation{u2019} in a non-causal and non-determinist sense elucidates the interaction between ideology (as described and explained above) and circumstances/events through a detailed historical narrative, assessing the significance of ideology and avoiding the notion that ideological primacy means or implies that ideological factors in themselves caused the Bolsheviks to practice violence.
Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 856
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