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A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.
List 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
About the author
Nadezhda K. Krupskaya (1869–1939) was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party during the revolution of 1905, served as the deputy commissar of education following the October Revolution, and was centrally involved in the creation of the early Soviet education system.
Summary
A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.
Foreword
•Advertising and excerpts in International Socialist Review, and Socialist Worker.
•Promotion and publicity to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Additional text
"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
