Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Map
List of Abbreviations
Chronological Table
Editor’s Preface
Introduction
1 Distant Sources
Genealogy
Vladimir and Alexander
The Forerunners
The Discovery of Marxism
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Inessa Armand
Financial Secrets
2 Master of the Order
Theorist of Revolution
The Phenomenon of Bolshevism
Lenin and the Mensheviks
The Paradox of Plekhanov
The Tragedy of Martov
3 The Scar of October
Democratic February
Parvus, Ganetsky and the ‘German Key’
Lenin and Kerensky
The July Rehearsal
October and the ‘Conspiracy of Equals’
Commissars and the Constituent Assembly
4 Priests of Terror
The Anatomy of Brest-Litovsk
White Raiments
Regicide
Fanya Kaplan’s Shot
The Guillotine of Terror
5 Lenin’s Entourage
The Most Capable Man in the Central Committee
The Man with Unlimited Power
The Bolshevik Tandem
The Party’s Favourite
The Leninist Politburo
6 The One-Dimensional Society
The Deceived Vanguard
Peasant Predators
The Tragedy of the Intelligentsia
Lenin and the Church
The Prophet of Comintern
7 The Mausoleum of Leninism
The Regime and the Illness
The Long Agony
The Mummy and the Embalming of Ideas
The Inheritance and the Heirs
Lenin as History
Postscript: Defeat in Victory
Keep Reading
Index
About the Author
Notes
About the Publisher
