The Bolsheviks : the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia : with a new preface / Adam B. Ulam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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�1917VII. 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

English.

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.

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