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The Bolsheviks; the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia Cover Image

The Bolsheviks; the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia / Adam B. Ulam.

Ulam, Adam B., 1922-2000 (Author).

Summary:

A comprehensive treatment which traces the course of the Bolshevik movement through birth, exile, inner dissension, unexpected opportunity-and, at the hour of its triumph, self-betrayal. Includes portraits of such figures as Nicholas I, Belinsky, Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin.

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Physical Description: ix, 598 pages. : portraits. ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Macmillan, [1965]

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The family -- The revolutionary tradition. The Decembrists ; Bakunin and Herzen ; Chernyshevsky ; Populism -- Apprenticeship. Samara ; St. Petersburg ; Siberia ; Marxism -- The leader. The Iskra period ; What is to be done ; From the rift to the Revolution of 1905 -- Revolution and reaction. The Revolution of 1905 ; The ebb -- The years of waiting : 1908-1917. Splits and scandals ; On the world stage : 1912-1917 -- 1917. A kind and considerate revolution ; Toward the great October -- Victory. The statesman ; The dictator -- The worlds of communism. The old economic policy ; The world of the comintern -- The last struggles. Medicine and administration ; Intrigue and death.