Lenin: A Political Life

Abstract

v. 1. The strengths of contradiction. Prologue : the enigma of Lenin ; Cross-currents ; Roads to freedom ; Arrivals ; Capitalism in one country ; Straightening sticks ; From this accursed distance ; Sturm und drang ; Predicting the tide ; For the good of the cause ; Doubts and certainties -- v. 2. Worlds in collision. All or nothing : 1910-1912 ; Storms before the storm : 1912-1914 ; Ad extirpanda : 1914-1915 ; War's divisions : 1915-1916 ; Unsealed messages : 1916 to April 1917 ; There is such a party! : April to July 1917 ; The fire next time : July to September 1917 ; To all the peoples : September to October 1917 ; The view from Petrograd : November to December 1917 ; The obscene peace : January to March 1918 -- v. 3. The iron ring. "Merciless retreat" ; Closing the circle ; Only one year ; And ours shall be the victory ; The tar in the honey ; Less politics! ; The rifle and sickle ; Against the wall ; Testament to a revolution ; Deaths and entrances.