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Looking For Lenin
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language : en
Publisher: Fuel Publishing
Release Date : 2017
Looking For Lenin written by and has been published by Fuel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
The eerie beauty of Ukraine's Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunization.
Looking For Lenin
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Author : Sébastien Gobert
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Looking For Lenin written by Sébastien Gobert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with categories.
Etablis en Ukraine depuis plusieurs années, le photographe Niels Ackermann et le journaliste Sébastien Gobert posent un regard curieux sur l'histoire de ce pays. Depuis la révolution de Maïdan, le gouvernement ukrainien cherche à marquer, vingt-cinq ans après l'indépendance du pays, une rupture nette avec le passé soviétique, notamment en promulguant des lois de "décommunisation". Les deux reporters sont partis à la recherche des marques tangibles de la période soviétique, sous son aspect le plus répandu et apparemment banal : les statues de Lénine. Celles-ci ont aujourd'hui entièrement disparu du paysage ukrainien. La scène est bien connue, répétée des dizaines et des centaines de fois depuis 1990 : la statue est jetée à terre par un gros véhicule, les grands-mères crient ou pleurent, les hommes fument, certains filment la scène. Mais que fait-on de la statue après sa chute ? Dans leur enquête, Niels Ackermann et Sébastien Gobert découvrent des Lénine dans les endroits les plus improbables, jardins, décharges, couloirs de musées, salons de particuliers... Ils en ramènent plusieurs entretiens avec leurs gardiens ou propriétaires et de magnifiques images, loufoques ou décalées, parfois teintées de nostalgie. Certains Lénine sont reconstitués, d'autres customisés ou détournés - Dark Vador, cosaque ou homme-sandwich. Devenus objets du quotidien inoffensifs, on leur voue une forme de tendresse, ou une haine farouche : ils sont le signe d'un passé encombrant, dont il faut s'emparer pour inventer un avenir à l'Ukraine.
The State And Revolution
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Author : V. I. Lenin
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2024-01-30
The State And Revolution written by V. I. Lenin and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with Political Science categories.
Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a ‘semi-state’ of soviets, or workers’ councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas.
Lenin And His Comrades
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language : en
Publisher: Enigma Books
Release Date : 2010-10-26
Lenin And His Comrades written by and has been published by Enigma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with History categories.
What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d’état by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn’t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start. Yuri Felshtinsky received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books include The Failure of the World Revolution (1991), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007), and The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
Lenin On The Train
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Author : Catherine Merridale
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-10-06
Lenin On The Train written by Catherine Merridale and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-06 with History categories.
THE TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book... this is a jewel among histories' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'The suberb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey to power and how it shook the world' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard Books of the Year A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the world By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home? Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years. Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.
Lenin
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Author : Victor Sebestyen
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Lenin written by Victor Sebestyen and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin "desired the good . . . but created evil." This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs)
Essential Works Of Lenin
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Author : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Essential Works Of Lenin written by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with History categories.
Four most significant works, also including "The Development of Capitalism in Russia," "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism," and "The State and Revolution."
The Dilemmas Of Lenin
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Author : Tariq Ali
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2017-04-04
The Dilemmas Of Lenin written by Tariq Ali and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with History categories.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read. Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's thought - the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international labour movement - and explains how Lenin confronted dilemmas that still cast a shadow over the present. Is terrorism ever a viable strategy? Is support for imperial wars ever justified? Can politics be made without a party? Was the seizure of power in 1917 morally justified? Should he have parted company from his wife and lived with his lover? In The Dilemmas of Lenin, Ali provides an insightful portrait of Lenin's deepest preoccupations and underlines the clarity and vigour of his theoretical and political formulations. He concludes with an affecting account of Lenin's last two years, when he realized that "we knew nothing" and insisted that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die.
Russia And The Cult Of State Security
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Author : Julie Fedor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Russia And The Cult Of State Security written by Julie Fedor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with History categories.
This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian regimes have sponsored a ‘cult’ of state security, whereby security organs are held up as something to be worshipped. The book approaches the history of this cult as an ongoing struggle to legitimise and sacralise the Russian state security apparatus, and to negotiate its violent and dramatic past. It explores the ways in which, during the Soviet period, this mythology sought to make the existence of the most radically intrusive and powerful secret police in history appear ‘natural’. It also documents the contemporary post-Soviet re-emergence of the cult of state security, examining the ways in which elements of the old Soviet mythology have been revised and reclaimed as the cornerstone of a new state ideology. The Russian cult of state security is of ongoing contemporary relevance, and is crucial for understanding not only the tragedies of Russia’s twentieth-century history, but also the ambiguities of Russia’s post-Soviet transition, and the current struggle to define Russia’s national identity and future development. The book examines the ways in which contemporary Russian life continues to be shaped by the legacy of Soviet attitudes to state-society relations, as expressed in the reconstituted cult of state security. It investigates the shadow which the figure of the secret policeman continues to cast over Russia today. The book will be of great interest to students of modern Russian history and politics, intelligence studies and security studies, as well as readers with an interest in the KGB and its successors.
Reminiscences Of Lenin
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Author : Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-10-01
Reminiscences Of Lenin written by Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The reminiscences in this volume cover the period 1894 to 1917. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (1869-1939) was the wife of V. I. Lenin, was an old member of the Communist Party, a Soviet statesman and a distinguished educator. She was born in St. Petersburg, where she began her revolutionary career. Krupskaya is the author of a number of books on questions of education and pedagogics. Her Reminiscences of Lenin were written over a number of years and published in parts at different times. The present volume is the most complete of all her reminiscences of Lenin hitherto published.