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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393070794

ISBN-139780393070798

eBay Product ID (ePID)72676000

Product Key Features

Book TitleLenin's Brother : the Origins of the October Revolution

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Revolutionary, General, Political, Siblings

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorPhilip Pomper

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-027390

Reviews[A] richly contextualized and highly readable biography.... This work deserves a wide readership, from serious students and scholars of revolutionary Russia to enthusiasts of biography or psychohistory., A little-known episode from the Russian past illuminates some of its most significant events.... An evenhanded, complex, fascinating historical analysis.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal947.084/1092 B

SynopsisThe gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother -- Lenin -- to revolution. In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia's tsar. Known as "Second First March" for the date of their action, this group failed disastrously in their mission, and its leaders, Alexander included, were executed. History has largely forgotten Alexander, but for the most important consequence of his execution: his younger brother, Vladimir, went on to lead the October Revolution of 1917 and head the new Soviet government under his revolutionary pseudonym "Lenin." Probing the Ulyanov family archives, historian Philip Pomper uncovers Alexander's transformation from ascetic student to terrorist, and the impact his fate had on Lenin. Vividly portraying the psychological dynamics of a family that would change history, Lenin's Brother is a perspective-changing glimpse into Lenin's formative years -- and his subsequent behavior as a revolutionary., Probing the Ulyanov family archives, historian Philip Pomper uncovers Alexander's transformation from ascetic student to terrorist, and the impact his fate had on Lenin. Vividly portraying the psychological dynamics of a family that would change history, Lenin's Brother is a perspective-changing glimpse into Lenin's formative years--and his subsequent behavior as a revolutionary., The gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother--Lenin--to revolution.

LC Classification NumberDK236.U4P66 2010