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Book SynopsisNadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a founding member of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924. As both his closest political collaborator and personal confidant, Krupskaya offers invaluable insights into the life and thought of the most important leader of the Russian Revolution. The portrait of Lenin that emerges is of a man unwavering in his convictions, but also - contrary to the mythology later woven around him - quick to laugh and tender in his affections.
Trade Review"The nine years of his second emigration had not changed Ilyich a bit. He worked just as hard and as methodically, he took the same keen interest in every little detail, was able to put two and two together and had lost none of his ability to see the truth and face it, no matter how bitter it was. He hated oppression and exploitation as cordially as ever, was just as devoted to the cause of the proletariat, the cause of the working people, and took their interests just as closely to heart. His whole life was bound up with that cause. It came naturally to him, he could not live in any other way ... He was just as fond of nature, of the spring woods, the mountain paths and lakes, the noise of the big cities, the working-class crowd; he loved his comrades, movement, struggle, life in all its numerous facets." From the Introduction
"The nine years of his second emigration had not changed Ilyich a bit. He worked just as hard and as methodically, he took the same keen interest in every little detail, was able to put two and two together and had lost none of his ability to see the truth and face it, no matter how bitter it was. He hated oppression and exploitation as cordially as ever, was just as devoted to the cause of the proletariat, the cause of the working people, and took their interests just as closely to heart. His whole life was bound up with that cause. It came naturally to him, he could not live in any other way ... He was just as fond of nature, of the spring woods, the mountain paths and lakes, the noise of the big cities, the working-class crowd; he loved his comrades, movement, struggle, life in all its numerous facets." —From the Introduction
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. St. Petersburg In Exile, 1898-1901 Munich, 1901-1902 Life in London, 1902-1903 Geneva, 1903 The Second Congress, July-August 1903 After the Second Congress, 1903-1904 The Year 1905: Life in emigration Back in St. Petersburg St Petersburg and Finland, 1905-07 Again Abroad. End of 1907 Part II. Second Emigration Years of Reaction Geneva, 1908 Paris, 1909-1910 The Years of New Revolutionary Upsurge, 1911-1914 Paris, 1911-1912 Early 1912 Cracow, 1912-14 The Years of The War Cracow, 1914 Berne, 1914-1915 Zurich, 1916 Last Months in Emigration... In Petrograd Underground Again On the Eve of the Uprising Part III. Preface to Part III The October Days From the October Revolution to the Peace of Brest Ilyich Moves to Moscow, His First Months of Work in Moscow 1919
