The Lenin Plot
Title | The Lenin Plot PDF eBook |
Author | Barnes Carr |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2022-05-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781398112353 |
New in paperback - The surprising story of one of the darkest episodes in espionage history: the 'midnight war' devised by America and Allied powers to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and invade Russia.
The Lenin Plot
Title | The Lenin Plot PDF eBook |
Author | Barnes Carr |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1398104515 |
The surprising story of one of the darkest episodes in espionage history: the ‘midnight war’ devised by America and Allied powers to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and invade Russia.
The Lockhart Plot
Title | The Lockhart Plot PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Schneer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2020-07-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198852983 |
This is the extraordinary story of the British plot in the summer of 1918 to overthrow the Bolshevik government in Russia, murder the Bolshevik leaders, and install a new government in Moscow that would re-open the war against the Germans on the Eastern Front. Conceived by the British envoy to the Bolsheviks, Robert Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, and involving French, American, and Russian accomplices, the planultimately failed - which is why it has until now remained shrouded in mystery. It was a plot in which the fate of the Revolution and the future shape of world history were upfor grabs, and the story behind it is a thrilling one involving a game of cat and mouse with the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, as well as murder, attempted murder, and a passionate love affair between Lockhart and one of his Russian accomplices, the beautiful Russian aristocrat Moura von Benckendorff.
Russian Roulette
Title | Russian Roulette PDF eBook |
Author | Giles Milton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1620405709 |
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.
The State and Revolution
Title | The State and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN |
Lenin's Tomb
Title | Lenin's Tomb PDF eBook |
Author | David Remnick |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2014-04-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804173583 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of Communist rule leading up to the collapse and gives us the voices of those who lived through it, from democratic activists to Party members, from anti-Semites to Holocaust survivors, from Gorbachev to Yeltsin to Sakharov. An extraordinary history of an empire undone, Lenin’s Tomb stands as essential reading for our times.
Lenin
Title | Lenin PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Sebestyen |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 675 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101871644 |
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)