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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Dates and Transliterations -- 1. The Ul’ianovs -- 2. Alexander Ul’ianov, Terrorist -- 3. Vladimir Ul’ianov, Substitute Revolutionary -- 4. Moratorium and Apprenticeship -- 5. Exile and Emigration -- 6. Lenin and Plekhanov -- 7. The Emergence of Leninism -- 8. 1905 -- 9. The Bronsteins -- 10. The Impostor -- 11. Lev Bronstein’s Two Conversions -- 12. Leon Trotsky, Romantic Exile -- 13. Trotsky Against Lenin -- 14. Trotsky in 1905 -- 15. Lenin at Loose Ends -- 16. Iosif Dzhugashvili Becomes Koba -- 17. Koba: From Apprentice to Journeyman -- 18. The Travils of Russian Social Democracy -- 19. Philosophical Interlude -- 20. The Death and Rebirth of Bolshevism -- 21. Lenin in Isolation -- 22. Lenin, Trotsky, and World War I -- 23. 1917: The Return of the Exiles -- 24. Trotsky and the Bolsheviks -- 25. Lenin’s First Bid for Power -- 26. The Bolsheviks in Extremis -- 27. Lenin’s Utopia -- 28. Reversal: On the Attack -- 29. October 1917 -- 30. The Travails of Power -- 31. Crisis: Brest-Litovsk -- 32. The Civil War: Trotsky Versus Stalin -- 33. War Communism -- 34. Lenin Against Trotsky -- 35. 1921: Year of Crisis and Retreat -- 36. Lenin’s Last Campaigns -- 37. The “Testament" -- 38. Trotsky’s “New Course” -- 39. Lenin’s Death and Trotsky’s Decline -- Notes -- Index
Presents a psychological approach to the biographies of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin by focusing on critical moments throughout their lives to examine and interpret the formation and transformation of their personalities in the family and school environment, in revolutionary politics, and in power