Non-Geometric Lenin

Carter Elwood is a Distinguished Research Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

• List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part One. Lenin’s Attempt to Build a Bolshevik Party, 1910–1914; 1. Lenin and the Social Democratic Schools for Underground Party Workers, 1909–1911; 2. The Art of Calling a Party Conference (Prague, 1912); 3. Lenin and ‘Pravda’, 1912–1914; 4. The Congress that Never Was: Lenin’s Attempt to Call a ‘Sixth’ Party Congress in 1914; 5. Lenin and the Brussels ‘Unity’ Conference of July 1914; Part Two. The ‘Other’ Lenin; 6. The Malinovskii Affair: ‘A Very Fishy Business’; 7. Lenin’s Testimony to the Extraordinary Investigatory Commission; 8. Lenin and Armand: New Evidence on an Old Affair; 9. What Lenin Ate; 10. Lenin on Vacation; 11. The Sporting Life of V. I. Lenin; Notes; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index

‘Carter Elwood portrays a more human side of V. I. Lenin than Soviet hagiographies allowed and elaborates upon important moments in the Bolshevik leader’s life that are sometimes overlooked or sensationalized in Western biographies… All chapters reflect the author’s careful approach and close, cautious reading of sources.’ —Barbara C. Allen, ‘The NEP Era, Soviet Russia 1921-1928’