Описание: RUSSIAN ROULETTE tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it.
The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - Soviet revolutionaries and Islamic jihadis - to form a highly toxic threat.
Unbeknownst to Moscow, a small band of British spies had been secretly smuggled into Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution. They were an unlikely group of men: self taught and highly educated. Their boss was endearingly eccentric. Mansfield Cumming was a monocled, one-legged sea captain with a passion for secret inks and homemade explosives. Cumming gave his agents free range to do whatever they wanted once they were inside Soviet Russia: 'Just don't get yourself killed,' was his only injunction.
Автор: Fischer l Название: Life of lenin, the ISBN: 1842122304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842122303 Издательство: Orion Цена: 2579.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Lenin lived and breathed for the revolution and died having changed the course of history throughout the world. His incredible strength of will and personality, his fantastic organisational ability and complete dedication to the goal of revolution enabled him to surmount domestic dissension and disorder, political rivalries, and economic ruin. It was his supreme ability to adapt, to change, to pursue any means to achieve his ends that enabled the revolution to survive. This work is a history of the Russian revolutionary movement and of Soviet Russia from 1917-1964 wrapped up in a detailed biography of Lenin, and is by a devoted scholar of Soviet affairs and close aquaintance of Lenin.
Автор: Merridale, Catherine Название: Lenin on the Train ISBN: 0141979941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141979946 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: 'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Splendid ... a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit, judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The TimesBy 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe.
In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home?Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years.
Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.
Автор: Krausz Tamas Название: Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography ISBN: 1583674497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781583674499 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4290.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and "actually-existing" socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin afresh, with sober senses trained on his historical context and how it shaped his theoretical and political contributions. Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in the making and now available in English for the first time, is an attempt to do just that.
Tam s Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of Gy rgy Luk cs, Ferenc Tokei, and Istv n M sz ros, makes a major contribution to a growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thought shaped by immediate political events but never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Krausz balances detailed descriptions of Lenin's time and place with lucid explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy, socialism and utopianism.Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement; it will also introduce the English-speaking world to a profound radical scholar.
Автор: Sebestyen, Victor Название: Lenin the Dictator : An Intimate Portrait ISBN: 147460045X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474600453 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world. Lenin believed that the 'the political is the personal', and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen's focus will be on Lenin the man - a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of his menage a trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of legend. Told through the prism of Lenin's key relationships, Sebestyen's lively biography casts a new light the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history.
Автор: Sebestyen, Victor Название: Lenin The Dictator ISBN: 1474600441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474600446 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 3795.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A new life of the creator of the world`s first communist state
Автор: Vladimir Lenin Название: The State and Revolution ISBN: 014018435X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140184358 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers both the rationale for the new regime and insights into Leninist politics.
Автор: Rappaport, Helen Название: Conspirator (Lenin in Exile) ISBN: 0091930936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780091930936 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tells how, for seventeen years, Lenin lived a hand-to-mouth existence outside Russia, working towards the upheaval that in 1917 transformed the political landscape of Europe: the Russian Revolution. This book describes Lenin`s triumphs and the conflicts, personal and political, with those who shared his exile.
Описание: 1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin`s plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6.
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