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Reconstructing Lenin
Tamás Krausz
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Cover
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Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
1. Who Was Lenin?
Family
Education
The Personality of Lenin as a Young Man in Exile and as an Émigré
The 1905 Revolution and the Second Emigration
In Power
2. Russian Capitalism and the Revolution
The Challenges at the Turn of the Century
Break with Narodism
Break with Liberalism
The Historical Debate: The Nature of the Autocratic State
3. Organization and Revolution
Lenin’s Bolshevism: Politics and Theory
Lenin and Bogdanov
4. The War and the National Question
Disintegration and Dialectics
Lenin and the Great War
The National Question and National Self-Determination—“Two Cultures”
5. The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution: Theoretical Background
The Philosophy of the October Revolution: A Critical Appraisal of the Modern State and Parliamentarism
Revolution and State: The Functional Alternative
6. Dictatorship and Democracy in Practice
The Dissolution of the All-Russia Constituent Assembly
Violence and Terror: Causes and Consequences
The 1922 Wave of Repression: Ending the Civil War
Lenin and the Pogroms
7. World Revolution: Method and Myth
The Origin of the Problem
The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Patriotism
The Polish-Soviet War
Messianic Leftism
8. The Theory of Socialism—Possibility or Utopia?
The Conceptual Origins of Socialism
From Market Economy to War Communism
NEP vs. War Communism—Irreconcilable Contradictions
The Nature of Power and Party Dictatorship
The Period of Transition—“State Capitalism”
Bureaucratic Centralism and the Thermidorian Alternative
The Theory of Socialism and Its Systemic Coherencies
Summary Comments in Place of a Postscript
Chronology of Russian History, 1917–1924
Biographical Sketches
List of Photographs and Illustrations
Bibliography
Notes
CHAPTER 5—THE STATE AND REVOLUTION
Index
Tamás Krausz
Reconstructing Lenin
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