25. Lenin’s First Bid for Power

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. A Note on Dates and Transliterations XV
6. 1. The Ul’ianovs 1
7. 2. Alexander Ul’ianov, Terrorist 13
8. 3. Vladimir Ul’ianov, Substitute Revolutionary 21
9. 4. Moratorium and Apprenticeship 36
10. 5. Exile and Emigration 51
11. 6. Lenin and Plekhanov 60
12. 7. The Emergence of Leninism 71
13. 8. 1905 81
14. 9. The Bronsteins 88
15. 10. The Impostor 96
16. 11. Lev Bronstein’s Two Conversions 103
17. 12. Leon Trotsky, Romantic Exile 116
18. 13. Trotsky Against Lenin 127
19. 14. Trotsky in 1905 133
20. 15. Lenin at Loose Ends 147
21. 16. Iosif Dzhugashvili Becomes Koba 153
22. 17. Koba: From Apprentice to Journeyman 165
23. 18. The Travils of Russian Social Democracy 182
24. 19. Philosophical Interlude 191
25. 20. The Death and Rebirth of Bolshevism 206
26. 21. Lenin in Isolation 226
27. 22. Lenin, Trotsky, and World War I 232
28. 23. 1917: The Return of the Exiles 248
29. 24. Trotsky and the Bolsheviks 260
30. 25. Lenin’s First Bid for Power 269
31. 26. The Bolsheviks in Extremis 281
32. 27. Lenin’s Utopia 289
33. 28. Reversal: On the Attack 295
34. 29. October 1917 306
35. 30. The Travails of Power 320
36. 31. Crisis: Brest-Litovsk 330
37. 32. The Civil War: Trotsky Versus Stalin 336
38. 33. War Communism 351
39. 34. Lenin Against Trotsky 357
40. 35. 1921: Year of Crisis and Retreat 363
41. 36. Lenin’s Last Campaigns 370
42. 37. The “Testament" 378
43. 38. Trotsky’s “New Course” 395
44. 39. Lenin’s Death and Trotsky’s Decline 401
45. Notes 409
46. Index 433