Format:
Book
Author(s):
Clark, Ronald
Keyword(s):
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Communists -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Biographie
Lenin, Vladimir Ilíich, 1870-1924.
Lenin, Vladimir I.
Year:
1988
Pages:
x, 564 p.
Publisher:
Harper & Row
Publisher location:
New York, N.Y.
Accession number:
28324440
Label:
Box 129
Notes:
ill. ; 25 cm.
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Apprenticeship -- The boy from the Volga -- Novice conspirator -- A youth in exile -- Great expectations -- Approaches to revolution -- Return to Russia -- Training for the task -- The catalyst of war -- The sealed train -- The man revealed -- Preparing the ground -- On the eve -- The seizure of power -- The Bolsheviks in control -- Problems of success -- Brest-Litovsk -- The end of democracy: terror -- Civil war and intervention -- Lenin's state survives -- The fight for recovery -- Death, succession and the legacy.
Includes index./ Originally published in Great Britain under the title: Lenin : the man behind the mask.
Ronald W. Clark.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: DK254.L4; Dewey: 947.084/1/0924; B
ISBN:
ISBN: 0060158026; 9780060158026 LCCN: 87-45090
Work type:
Biography (bio)
Abstract:
An account of Lenin's impact on the course of twentieth-century history.