Preface

Note on Transliteration and Calendars

List of Illustrations

Glossary of Names of Lenin and his Family

Maps

Introduction

Part One: The Rebel Emerges

1. The Ulyanovs and the Blanks

2. Childhood in Simbirsk
1870-1885

3. Deaths in the Family
1886-1887

4. The Ploughing of the Mind
1887-1888

5. Paths to Revolution
1889-1893

6. St Petersburg
1893-1895

7. To Siberian Italy
1895-1900

Part Two: Lenin and the Party

8. An Organization of Revolutionaries
1900-1902

9. 'Holy Fire'
1902-1904

10. Russia from Far and Near
1905-1907

11. The Second Emigration
1908-1911

12. Almost Russia!
1912-1914

13. Fighting for Defeat
1914-1915

14. Lasting Out
1915-1916

Part Three: Seizing Power

15. Another Country
February to April 1917

16. The Russian Cockpit
May to July 1917

17. Power for the Taking
July to October 1917

18. The October Revolution
October to December 1917

19. Dictatorship Under Siege
Winter 1917-1918

20. Brest-Litovsk
January to May 1918

21. At Gunpoint
May to August 1918

Part Four: Defense of the Revolution

22. War Leader
1918-1919

23. Expanding the Revolution
April 1919 to April 1920

24. Defeat in the West
1920

25. The New Economic Policy
January to June 1921

26. A Question of Survival
July 1921 to July 1922

27. Disputing to the Last
September to December 1922

28. Death in the Big House
1923-1924

Lenin: The Afterlife

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index