Lenin and His Comrades

by Felshtinsky, Yuri

• ISBN13: 9781929631957
• ISBN10: 1929631952
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Enigma Books

Summary

What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup drs"eacute;tat by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesnrs"t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start.Yuri Felshtinsky received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books include The Failure of the World Revolution (1991), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007), and The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

Author Biography

Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky holds a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University and a doctoral degree from the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1993, he was the first foreign citizen to be awarded a doctoral degree. His own books include The Bolsheviks and the Left SRs (1985), Towards a History of Our Isolation (1988); The Failure of the World Revolution (1991); Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007); The corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008) Dr. Felshtinsky is associated with the Russian dissidents. He lives near Boston, MA.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
The Money for the Revolution	p. 5
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	p. 40
The Assassination of Count Mirbach and the Destruction of the Left SR Party	p. 104
Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov	p. 136
Karl Radek and the Murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg	p. 171
The Mystery of Lenin's Death	p. 188
Epilogue	p. 258
Abbreviations	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 266
Notes	p. 273
Index	p. 287
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