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The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia, With a New Preface by the Author

by Adam B. Ulam

Harvard University Press, 1998
eISBN: 978-0-674-04453-1 | Paper: 978-0-674-07830-7
Library of Congress Classification HX313.U39 1998

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK
The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.

REVIEWS

Notwithstanding the title…this is the most rewarding single study of Lenin that I have yet encountered… The really impressive feature of Ulam’s book is that he is thinking hard all the way. No comfortable historical generalization or biographical cliché escapes his critical attention, and he has a most satisfying way of asking, in effect—is this an adequate explanation; what else may be involved? In these days of rampant ‘be-that-as-it-may’ writing, Ulam’s intellectual seriousness is a great relief and pleasure.
-- Henry L. Roberts New York Times (from reviews of the first edition)

This biography of Lenin…is so good that it is not merely superior in degree to any other life of Lenin, but different in kind. The conjunction of scholar and artist is the rarest thing. We used to be told that it was worth learning Italian to read Dante. Here is a new one: it is worth developing an interest in Lenin to read Adam Ulam.
-- The Observer (from reviews of the first edition)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Preface, 1998: Lenin among the Bolsheviks

I
The Family

II
The Revolutionary Tradition

1.
The Decembrists

2.
Bakunin and Herzen

3.
Chernyshevsky

4.
Populism

III
Apprenticeship

1.
Samara

2.
St. Petersburg

3.
Siberia

4.
Marxism

IV
The Leader

1.
The Iskra Period

2.
What Is To Be Done

3.
From the Rift to the Revolution of 1905

V
Revolution and Reaction

1.
The Revolution of 1905

2.
The Ebb

VI
The Years of Waiting: 1908–1917

1.
Splits and Scandals

2.
On the World Stage: 1912–1917

VII
1917

1.
A Kind and Considerate Revolution

2.
Toward the Great October

VIII
Victory

1.
The Statesman

2.
The Dictator

IX
The Worlds of Communism

1.
The Old Economic Policy

2.
The World of the Comintern

X
The Last Struggles

1.
Medicine and Administration

2.
Intrigue and Death

Index

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