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.

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations “Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”—NPR’s All Things Considered Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly

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

“Fascinating . . . full of insight and a perceptive portrait of Lenin’s single-mindedness and his relentless, all-consuming drive towards revolution in Russia.” —The Guardian Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin’s fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky 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. This is the essential guide for anyone wanting to understand Lenin as a thinker, active revolutionary, and personality.

A winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize Liebmann highlights democratic dimensions in Lenin's thinking as it developed over 25 years.

This commentary to Lenin's landmark "What is to be Done?" (1902) provides hitherto unavailable contextual information about Lenin's outlook and aims that undermines previous interpretations. It challenges established views about Marxism, 'revolutionary Social Democracy' and Bolshevism.