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Lenin
Lih, Lars T.
Publisher: ReaktionYear Published: 2011 Pages: 240pp ISBN: 978-1-86189-793-0 Dewey: 947'.0841'092 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX12648 Lars T. Lih presents a striking new interpretation of Lenin's political outlook. The standard view portrays Lenin as a pessimist with a dismissive view of the revolutionary potential of the workers. Lih maintains that beneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was more a romantic enthusiast than a sour pragmatist, one who imposed meaning on the whirlwind of events happening around him by seeing them through the lens of his own heroic scenario of class leadership. Abstract: - TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Another Way 2. The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement 3. A People's Revolution 4. Three Train Rides 5. Beyond the 'Textbook a la Kausky' Epilogue References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Subject Headings |