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ISBN-13: 9780415206488

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This new biography supplies a clean and unique account of Lenin's own lifestyles and political occupation. Christopher learn attracts on a vast variety of basic and secondary resources, employing archive fabric made on hand within the Glasnost and post-Soviet eras. Focal issues of this learn are Lenin's progressive ascetic character; his exploitation of cultural, academic and propaganda capability; his dating to Marxism; his altering category research of Russia; and his 'populist' instincts.

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No revolutionary, especially political, transition would be needed. In European terms, Eduard Bernstein became the foremost advocate of this tendency known as evolutionary socialism. This is not the place for a detailed discussion of Bernstein’s views. From our perspective we need to note that Bernstein was facing up to the key question of why Marxist revolution had not yet occurred, indeed, seemed rather remote in the late 1890s, by pointing to what he considered deficiencies in Marx’s theory as it was understood at the time.

However, before we can approach that we need to pick up the thread of Lenin’s life after his exile and up to the fateful days during and following the Second Party Congress of 1903. RETURN TO RUSSIA; RETREAT TO WESTERN EUROPE Eventually, Vladimir Il’ich’s sentence of exile was served. Not having been caught in any major infractions, no additional time was added. On 11 February 1900 the Ulyanovs began their long journey back. The first stage was a 320-kilometre horseback ride along the Yenissei.

Also, Lenin had not yet developed broad themes of argument. For the time being a well-grounded but repetitive intellectual critique of populism was his stock in trade, with a certain amount of attention to worker agitation beginning to develop. In no way did he stand out from the crowd as a potential leader, nor had he set out on his devastating course of splitting groups and splitting them again in pursuit of the finest degree of intellectual and doctrinal purity. It was in the next phase of his life, from his arrest through the fateful Second Congress of the Party in 1903 and on to the Revolution of 1905 and its aftermath, that Lenin truly emerged.

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