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Conspirator : Lenin in exile

Examines Vladimir Lenin's life of exile for seventeen years before the Russian Revolution in 1917, covering his reliance on a network of supporters and friends who helped spread illegal literature while Lenin worked toward the establishment of a Soviet social democracy, and discusses the impact of his surreptitious existence on the women in his life, including his wife, his mother, and his mistress
eBook, English, 2012, ©2010
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Basic Books, New York, 2012, ©2010
Biographies
1 online resource (viii, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations)
9780465028597, 0465028594
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Introduction: Shlisselburg Fortress, 1887
Leaving Shushenskoe
Igniting the spark
Konspiratsiya
Becoming Lenin
Dr. and Mrs. Richter
"The dirty squabble abroad"
"Strong talk and weak tea"
"On the eve of barricades"
Stolypin's neckties
"The congress of undesirables"
On thin ice
"Why the hell did we go to Paris?"
Inessa
"Almost Russia"
A Russian spy in Galicia
"This damned Switzerland"
"One fighting campaign after another"
From the Spiegelgasse to the Finland Station
Epilogue: Good-bye Lenin
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