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The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia, With a New Preface by the Author / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0674078306
ISBN-13:: 9780674078307
Pub. Date:: 04/01/1998
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

ISBN-10:: 0674078306
ISBN-13:: 9780674078307
Pub. Date:: 04/01/1998
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia, With a New Preface by the Author / Edition 1

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Overview

The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.

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ISBN-13:	9780674078307
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Edition description:	New Preface Edition
Pages:	598
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Adam B. Ulam was Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University.

Preface, 1998: Lenin among the Bolsheviks

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

Index

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Editorial Reviews

Notwithstanding the title…this is the most rewarding single study of Lenin that I have yet encountered… The really impressive feature of Ulam’s book is that he is thinking hard all the way. No comfortable historical generalization or biographical cliché escapes his critical attention, and he has a most satisfying way of asking, in effect—is this an adequate explanation; what else may be involved? In these days of rampant ‘be-that-as-it-may’ writing, Ulam’s intellectual seriousness is a great relief and pleasure.

New York Times (from reviews of the first edition) - Henry L. Roberts

This biography of Lenin…is so good that it is not merely superior in degree to any other life of Lenin, but different in kind. The conjunction of scholar and artist is the rarest thing. We used to be told that it was worth learning Italian to read Dante. Here is a new one: it is worth developing an interest in Lenin to read Adam Ulam.

The Observer (from reviews of the first edition)

This biography of Lenin...is so good that it is not merely superior in degree to any other life of Lenin, but different in kind. The conjunction of scholar and artist is the rarest thing. We used to be told that it was worth learning Italian to read Dante. Here is a new one: it is worth developing an interest in Lenin to read Adam Ulam.

The Observer [UK]

From reviews of the first edition:
Notwithstanding the title...this is the most rewarding single study of Lenin that I have yet encountered...The really impressive feature of Ulam's book is that he is thinking hard all the way. No comfortable historical generalization or biographical cliché escapes his critical attention, and he has a most satisfying way of asking, in effect--is this an adequate explanation; what else may be involved? In these days of rampant 'be-that-as-it-may' writing, Ulam's intellectual seriousness is a great relief and pleasure.

New York Times - Henry L. Roberts

From reviews of the first edition:
Notwithstanding the title...this is the most rewarding single study of Lenin that I have yet encountered...The really impressive feature of Ulam's book is that he is thinking hard all the way. No comfortable historical generalization or biographical cliché escapes his critical attention, and he has a most satisfying way of asking, in effect—is this an adequate explanation; what else may be involved? In these days of rampant 'be-that-as-it-may' writing, Ulam's intellectual seriousness is a great relief and pleasure.
— Henry L. Roberts

New York Times

The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia, With a New Preface by the Author / Edition 1

The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia, With a New Preface by the Author / Edition 1

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