Paul Le Blanc

Lenin

Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

A modern take on a revolutionary icon, by an acclaimed scholar of communist history

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780745348346
• ISBN-10: 0745348343
• Artikelnr.: 67733768

Autorenporträt

Paul Le Blanc is an activist and acclaimed American historian teaching at La Roche University, Pennsylvania. A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, his politics were at odds with the establishment from a young age. He has written extensively on the history of the labor and socialist movements of the United States and Europe, including books on Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg and the importance of the revolutionary collective.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: What's the Point?
1. Who was Lenin?
2. Theory, Organization, Action (1901-1905)
3. The Revolutionary Explosion of 1905
4. Comrades and Coherence (1905-1914)
5. Engaging with Catastrophe (1914-1917)
6. The 1917 Revolution
7. Revolutionary Internationalism (1882-1922)
8. Besieged Fortress (1918-1922)
9. Unexplored Mountain (1922-1923)
10. Commit Yourself and Then See...
Chronology of Lenin's Life
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index