Trotsky on Lenin

Synopsis

Combining Young Lenin And On Lenin In One Volume, Trostsky On Lenin Brings Together Two Long-out-of-print Works In A Single Volume For The First Time, Providing An Intimate And Illuminating Portrait Of The Bolshevik Leader By Another Of The Twentieth Century's Greatest Revolutionaries. Written Shortly After Its Subject's Death, On Lenin Covers The Period Of Revolutionary Struggle Leading Up To 1917 As Well As The Early Years Of Bolshevik Power. We See A Man Totally Committed To The Revolutionary Cause, Whose Legacy Was Later Corrupted Under The Soviet Union's Stalinist Degeneration. Young Lenin, Meanwhile, Describes His Early Years And Conversion To Marxism, Dispelling Many Of The Myths Later Created By Soviet Hagiography In The Process. These Two Works By Leon Trotsky Are Essential To Understanding And Tracing Lenin's Evolution, His Life, And His Legacy. Part I. The Young Lenin -- Homeland -- The Family -- The Revolutionary Path Of The Intelligentsia -- The Elder Brother -- The 1880s -- The First Of March, 1887 -- Childhood And School Years -- The Stricken Family -- The Father And His Two Sons -- The Preparations Begin -- Under The Cover Of Reaction -- In Samara -- A Year Of Famine, Law Practice -- Landmarks Of Growth -- The Young Lenin -- Part Ii. On Lenin -- Lenin And The Old Iskra -- On The Eve -- The Uprising -- Brest-litovsk -- The Dispersal Of The Constituent Assembly -- The Business Of Government -- The Czechoslovaks And The Left Social Revolutionaries -- Lenin On The Rostrum -- Lenin's National Characteristics -- The Philistine And The Revolutionary -- The True And The False -- Children On Lenin -- Lenin Wounded -- Lenin Ill -- Lenin Is Dead. Leon Trotsky. Includes Index.