Clara Zetkin My Recollections of Lenin From My Memorandum Book Marcel Cachin Unforgettable Meetings Karl Steinhardt (Gruber) Meetings with the Great Lenin Vasil Kolarov At the Zimmerwald Conference V. I. Lenin at the Third Congress of the Communist International Willi Munzenberg Lenin and We Fritz Platten Lenin's Return Otto Grimlund On the Way to the Homeland Hugo Sillen Meetings with Lenin Kustaa Rovio How Lenin Was Hiding in the House of the Helsingfors Chief of Police John Reed Plunging Ahead Albert Rhys Williams Lenin-the Man and His Work Louise Bryant (Reed) My Acquaintance with Lenin Mihai Bujor Recollections of Meetings with Lenin Adam Egede-Nissen With Lenin in Smolny Robert Minor We Have Met Lenin Helena Bobinska Lenin in the Red Warsaw Regiment Laszlo Rudas Meeting with Lenin William T. Goode Lenin Isaac McBride In the Name of Emancipating Mankind Ivan Olbracht My Reminiscences of V. I. Lenin Bohumir Smeral From My Diary Antonin Zapotocky Reminiscences of Lenin Memory of Lenin William Gallacher Lenin Leader, Teacher and Friend Memorable Meetings Herbert G. Wells The Kremlin Dreamer A Truly Great Man Clare Sheridan Naked Truth Mirza Muhammed Yaftali Russia on the Road to Progress Thomas Bell Remembrances of Lenin Umberto Terracini Three Meetings with Lenin Paul Vaillant-Couturier Lenin William Z. Foster At Comintern Congresses Fritz Heckert "Well, Comrade Heckert, Tell Us About Your Heroic Exploits in Central Germany!" Harry Pollitt Lenin and the British Labour Movement Tsui Tsu-Bo Lenin Manuel Diaz Ramirez Talk with Lenin in 1921 Wilhelm Pieck Reminiscences of Lenin Balingiin Tserendorzh Sacred Memory Sen Katayama With Comrade Lenin Walter Ulbricht Lenin-Friend of the GermanPeople Gaston Monmousseau Lenin and the French Trade-Union Movement He Looked Way Ahead Pierre Semard Talk with Lenin During the Second Congress of the Trade-Union International Martin Andersen Nexo I Saw Lenin Lenin's Influence on the Creative Forces of the West Brief Biographies of the Authors

The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read. On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin’s thought—the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international labour movement—and explains how Lenin confronted dilemmas that still cast a shadow over the present. Is terrorism ever a viable strategy? Is support for imperial wars ever justified? Can politics be made without a party? Was the seizure of power in 1917 morally justified? Should he have parted company from his wife and lived with his lover? In The Dilemmas of Lenin, Ali provides an insightful portrait of Lenin’s deepest preoccupations and underlines the clarity and vigour of his theoretical and political formulations. He concludes with an affecting account of Lenin’s last two years, when he realized that “we knew nothing” and insisted that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die.

The reminiscences in this volume cover the period 1894 to 1917. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (1869-1939) was the wife of V. I. Lenin, was an old member of the Communist Party, a Soviet statesman and a distinguished educator. She was born in St. Petersburg, where she began her revolutionary career. Krupskaya is the author of a number of books on questions of education and pedagogics. Her Reminiscences of Lenin were written over a number of years and published in parts at different times. The present volume is the most complete of all her reminiscences of Lenin hitherto published.

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin "desired the good . . . but created evil." This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs)

"A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world. In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Lenin was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return to Petrograd and lead the revolt. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries. Germany saw an opportunity to further destabilize Russia by allowing Lenin and his small group of revolutionaries to return. Now, drawing on a dazzling array of sources and never-before-seen archival material, renowned historian Catherine Merridale provides a riveting, nuanced account of this enormously consequential journey--the train ride that changed the world--as well as the underground conspiracy and subterfuge that went into making it happen. Writing with the same insight and formidable intelligence that distinguished her earlier works, she brings to life a world of counter-espionage and intrigue, wartime desperation, illicit finance, and misguided utopianism. This was the moment when the Russian Revolution became Soviet, the genesis of a system of tyranny and faith that changed the course of Russia's history forever and transformed the international political climate"--

Recounts the extraordinary and thrilling story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia, led by Mansfield Cumming, who would one day pioneer the field of covert action and become MI6, and their mission to foil Lenin's plot for global revolution. 40,000 first printing.