Lenin
Critical Lives
Lih, Lars T.
Publisher: Reaktion
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 240pp ISBN: 978-1-86189-793-0
Dewey: 947'.0841'092
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX12648
In this book Lars T. Lih presents a striking new interpretation of Lenin's political outlook. The standard view portrays Lenin as a pessimist with a dismissive beiw of the revolutionary potential of the workers. This book reveals that beneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was more a romantic enthusiast than a sour pragmatist, one who imposed meaning on the whirlwind of events happening around him by seeing them through the lens of his own heroic scenario of class leadership.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Another Way
2. The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement
3. A People's Revolution
4. Three Train Rides
5. Beyond the 'Textbook a la Kausky'
Epilogue
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Subject Headings
