David Shub. Lenin: A Biography.

Contents

Preface

Prologue: Bitter Heritage

1 – Seeds of Revolution

2 – Youth

3 – Prison and Siberia

4 – The Birth of Bolshevism

5 – The First Revolution

6 – The Lower Depths

7 – From War to Revolution

8 – ‘The Freest Country in the World’

9 – Lenin’s Road to Petrograd

10 – Spring Thunder

11 – The July Uprising

12 – The Tide Turns

13 – Lenin Seizes Power

14 – Dictatorship

15 – Lenin Silences the Constituent Assembly

16 – Brest-Litovsk

17 – Terror and Civil War

18 – In The Kremlin

19 – Comintern

20 – Kronstadt

21 – Dictator Without Vanity

22 – The Testament

Appendix: Essentials of Leninism