A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of the Soviet state. The book places Lenin in the context of his times and shows his relationship to other socialist thinkers. In particular it locates Lenin within the development of Marxist thought in Russia. Its historiographical chapter reveals the political factors which influenced the way biographies of Lenin were written in the Soviet Union. The book makes use of first hand materials including sources from the Russian archives.
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'...especially valuable to university students just coming to the various disputes and controversies that eddy around Lenin and his achievements.' - Choice 'This European History in Perspective series is a good one...This book provides a convincing set of backed up arguments, to take some of the myth out of the story of Lenin as a revolutionary thinker and tactician.' - Andrew Hunt, History Teaching Review Yearbook 'Combines what Lenin thought with what he did in an exemplary manner.' - Professor Paul Dukes, University of Aberdeen 'An excellent introduction to Lenin's life and thought. Good supplementary reading for my courses on Russia.' - E.A. Swift, University of Essex
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JAMES D. WHITE is Reader in Russian and East European History at the University of Glasgow.
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Writing in 1927, Lenin's sister Anna recalled that when she was four years old or thereabouts, in 1868 or 1869, her parents took her and her little brother Alexander on a steamer trip down the Volga from Nizhnii Novgorod to Astrakhan, the home of her father's relations. Read the first page
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Writing in 1927, Lenin's sister Anna recalled that when she was four years old or thereabouts, in 1868 or 1869, her parents took her and her little brother Alexander on a steamer trip down the Volga from Nizhnii Novgorod to Astrakhan, the home of her father's relations. Read the first page
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Being in possession of an impressive array of facts but without the wisdom to understand them is the unfortunate fate of scholars in ivory towers. Thus poor James White; his fate is to write of Marxism without the least understanding of it.
By characterising commonplace philosophic discourse as "esoteric terminology" the author admits his own lack of understanding and the proof of which is shown by his charge that Lenin practically approved of his brother's assassination attempt on the Tsar by saying of that action, '.. he had to do what he did; he could have done no other.' 'Necessity', Mr White, necessity is what Hegel tells of.
The honourable professor at Glasgow does not stop there however. He denies to Lenin the possibility that he may have formed ideas of his own, or that if he had, that these ideas could ever be in accord with those of Marx. Lenin instead, like any schoolboy (perhaps like Mr White himself) 'takes sides'. Lenin, according to Professor White, is simply wilful when he 'refuses aid to starving peasants' because of his own selfish wish (!) to create (!) a working class to help him (!) make a revolution. Enough! Read the book and weep for a pitiful example of misunderstanding raised to the heights of a sterile assembly of facts.
Mr White reminds one of that medieval scholar whose merit as a historian may be gauged by his method: "I have made a heap of all that I have found".
By characterising commonplace philosophic discourse as "esoteric terminology" the author admits his own lack of understanding and the proof of which is shown by his charge that Lenin practically approved of his brother's assassination attempt on the Tsar by saying of that action, '.. he had to do what he did; he could have done no other.' 'Necessity', Mr White, necessity is what Hegel tells of.
The honourable professor at Glasgow does not stop there however. He denies to Lenin the possibility that he may have formed ideas of his own, or that if he had, that these ideas could ever be in accord with those of Marx. Lenin instead, like any schoolboy (perhaps like Mr White himself) 'takes sides'. Lenin, according to Professor White, is simply wilful when he 'refuses aid to starving peasants' because of his own selfish wish (!) to create (!) a working class to help him (!) make a revolution. Enough! Read the book and weep for a pitiful example of misunderstanding raised to the heights of a sterile assembly of facts.
Mr White reminds one of that medieval scholar whose merit as a historian may be gauged by his method: "I have made a heap of all that I have found".
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