Reminiscences of Lenin

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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a founding member of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924. As both his closest political collaborator and personal confidant, Krupskaya offers invaluable insights into the life and thought of the most important leader of the Russian Revolution. The portrait of Lenin that emerges is of a man unwavering in his convictions, but alsocontrary to the mythology later woven around himquick to laugh and tender in his affections.

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Publication date: February 20, 2018

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I.

St. Petersburg
In Exile, 1898-1901
Munich, 1901-1902
Life in London, 1902-1903
Geneva, 1903
The Second Congress, July-August 1903
After the Second Congress, 1903-1904
The Year 1905: Life in emigration
Back in St. Petersburg
St Petersburg and Finland, 1905-07
Again Abroad. End of 1907

Part II.

Second Emigration
Years of Reaction

Geneva, 1908
Paris, 1909-1910

The Years of New Revolutionary Upsurge, 1911-1914

Paris, 1911-1912
Early 1912
Cracow, 1912-14

The Years of The War

Cracow, 1914
Berne, 1914-1915
Zurich, 1916
Last Months in Emigration...

In Petrograd
Underground Again
On the Eve of the Uprising

Part III.

Preface to Part III
The October Days
From the October Revolution to the Peace of Brest
Ilyich Moves to Moscow, His First Months of Work in Moscow
1919

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"The nine years of his second emigration had not changed Ilyich a bit. He worked just as hard and as methodically, he took the same keen interest in every little detail, was able to put two and two together and had lost none of his ability to see the truth and face it, no matter how bitter it was. He hated oppression and exploitation as cordially as ever, was just as devoted to the cause of the proletariat, the cause of the working people, and took their interests just as closely to heart. His whole life was bound up with that cause. It came naturally to him, he could not live in any other way ... He was just as fond of nature, of the spring woods, the mountain paths and lakes, the noise of the big cities, the working-class crowd; he loved his comrades, movement, struggle, life in all its numerous facets."
From the Introduction
"The nine years of his second emigration had not changed Ilyich a bit. He worked just as hard and as methodically, he took the same keen interest in every little detail, was able to put two and two together and had lost none of his ability to see the truth and face it, no matter how bitter it was. He hated oppression and exploitation as cordially as ever, was just as devoted to the cause of the proletariat, the cause of the working people, and took their interests just as closely to heart. His whole life was bound up with that cause. It came naturally to him, he could not live in any other way ... He was just as fond of nature, of the spring woods, the mountain paths and lakes, the noise of the big cities, the working-class crowd; he loved his comrades, movement, struggle, life in all its numerous facets."
—From the Introduction

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