Author:
Brooks, Jeffrey, 1942-
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Descriptionxiv, 176 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Note:PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: V.I. Lenin's life and legacy -- PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS: 1. Lenin and the Bolshevik seizure of power, 1900-1917: -- Lenin as a theorist of revolution -- The path to the Bolsheviks' seizure of power -- 2. The monopolization of power during the Civil War, 1917-1920: -- Toward one-party power ; The Bolshevik terror and the stigmatization of public enemies ; Problems of war and world revolution ; War communism and the invention of a command economy -- 3. Threats to the revolution : the development of the new economic policy: -- Disputes and opposition in the Party, 1920-1921 ; Anti-Bolshevik popular uprisings and the shift in policy ; Lenin's objective in the New Economic Policy ; Economic policy under the NEP ; The institutionalization of a one-party system ; Toward a single spiritual and cultural system -- 4. The sick leader : de facto removal from power : -- Lenin's last thoughts -- APPENDIXES: A chronology of V.I. Lenin's life (1870-1924)
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references, "Selected bibliography" (p. 166-167), and index.
