Not By Politics Alone
The Other Lenin
Published on 16. January 2024
256 pages
978-1-80429-275-4 (ISBN)
Description
This vivid selection, compiled and introduced by Tamara Deutscher, written by Lenin and those who knew him, brings us the revolution in his everyday life - the man who lived by politics but not by politics alone.
Here, we see the Lenin of leisure as well as work, geared to his life's purpose and yet enjoying to the full all the pleasures of a healthy human existence - neither the humourless, monolithic cult hero of Soviet mythology nor the bogeyman of official anti-communism. What did Lenin read? How did he relax? What did he think and feel? This surprising collection, covering everything from his passionate baritone singing voice to his love of hunting wild game and beyond, reveals the man beyond the myth.
Here, we see the Lenin of leisure as well as work, geared to his life's purpose and yet enjoying to the full all the pleasures of a healthy human existence - neither the humourless, monolithic cult hero of Soviet mythology nor the bogeyman of official anti-communism. What did Lenin read? How did he relax? What did he think and feel? This surprising collection, covering everything from his passionate baritone singing voice to his love of hunting wild game and beyond, reveals the man beyond the myth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-275-4 (9781804292754)
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01/2024
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V.I. Lenin, edited by Tamara Deutscher
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Work and Leisure
- The Siberian Deportee I
- The Siberian Deportee II
- 'A kind of Baritone'
- The Sportsman
- In Geneva I
- In Geneva II
- In Cracow and Poronin
- II. Like Any Other Man?
- Lenin as a Revolutionary Leader
- Meeting with Kropotkin
- Kropotkin's Death
- Letter to Alexei Maximych Gorky
- 'No Rhetoric, Please ...'
- Cult of Personality
- Lenin Robbed
- Salary: Letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruevich
- Expenses on Garage: Letter to F. E. Dzerzhinsky
- Expenses on Books: Letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruevich
- 'Please Prolong My leave': Letter to V. M. Molotov
- Letter to Y. S. Varga
- How to Borrow a Book: Letter to the Library of the Rumyantsev Museum
- 'Please Look Through My Pamphlet': Letter to G. V. Chicherin
- 'Excuse Me, Comrades': Letter to W. Koennen, A. Thalheimer and P. Froehlich
- III. Inessa Armand
- Letters to Inessa Armand
- Death and Funeral
- Alexandra Kollontay Remembers
- IV. Revolution, Literature and Art
- What is to be Done?
- Fine Pages of Russian Literature
- In Memory of Herzen
- Leo Tolstoy as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution
- L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement
- Tolstoy and the Proletarian Struggle
- Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch
- Lessons of the Paris Commune
- In memory of the Paris Commune
- Party Organisation and Party Literature
- What can be done for Public Education?
- Pages from a Diary
- Illiteracy and Socialist Construction
- Letters to Alexei Maximych Gorky
- A Talk with Gorky
- What to do with Counter-Revolutionary Writers: Letter to F. E. Dzerzhinsky
- Lenin at an Exhibition
- Against Mayakovsky: Letters to A. V. Lunacharsky and Comrade Pokrovsky
- Oblomov Still Lives - on Mayakovsky
- A Visit to a Students' Hostel
- With Young Artists
- Museums and Experimenting Youth
- On Dostoevsky
- Against Bureaucratic Style
- On Monumental Propaganda
- Telegram to the People's Commissar Lunacharsky
- Lenin on Cinema
- Directives on Cinema
- On Music
- V. Women's Rights
- Letters to Inessa Armand
- A Great Beginning
- The Tasks of the Working Women's Movement
- Soviet Power and the Status of Women
- On Love in Communist Society
- VI. Bureaucracy
- Lenin and the Peasants
- The Party Crisis
- International and Domestic Situation
- Conditions for Admitting New Members to the Party
- Eleventh Congress of the R.C.P.(b)
- Note to L. B. Kamenev on the Struggle Against Great Russian Chauvinism
- To the Presidium of the Fifth Congress of the Soviet Employees' Union
- Lenin's Last Notes: On the Question of Nationalities or on 'Autonomisation'
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index
