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It frames Lenin as a “passionately impersonal” figure whose posthumous name and shifting aliases—Ulyanov, Ilich, K. Tulin, Vladimir Ilin—create a challenge for biography without turning him into a saint or a bogeyman. The book’s early introduction highlights scholarly “mausoleum” projects and sets up the study’s narrative agenda.","Lenin   \nLars T. Lih  \nLenin  \nTitles in the series Critical Lives present the work of leading cultural figures ofthe modern period. Each book explores the life of the artist, writer, philosopher or architect in question and relates it to their major works.  \nIn the same series  \nJean Genet Stephen Barber  \nMichel Foucault David Macey  \nPablo Picasso MaryAnn Caws  \nFranz Kafka Sander L. Gilman  \nGuy Debord Andy Merrifield  \nMarcel Duchamp Caroline Cros  \nJames Joyce Andrew Gibson  \nFrank Lloyd Wright Robert McCarter  \nJean-Paul Sartre Andrew Leak  \nNoam Chomsky Wolfgang B. Sperlich  \nJorge Luis Borges Jason Wilson  \nErik Satie Mary E. Davis  \nGeorges Bataille Stuart Kendall  \nLudwig Wittgenstein Edward Kanterian  \nOctavio Paz Nick Caistor  \nWalter Benjamin Esther Leslie  \nCharles Baudelaire Rosemary Lloyd  \nJean Cocteau James S. Williams  \nSergei Eisenstein Mike O’Mahony  \nSalvador Dalí  \nMaryAnn Caws Simone de Beauvoir Ursula Tidd  \nEdgar Allan Poe Kevin J. Hayes  \nGertrude Stein Lucy Daniel  \nPablo Neruda Dominic Moran  \nSamuel Beckett Andrew Gibson  \nWilliam S. Burroughs Phil Baker  \nStéphane Mallarmé Roger Pearson  \nVladimir Nabokov Barbara Wyllie  \nAlfred Jarry Jill Fell  \nClaude Debussy David J. Code  \nSimone Weil  \nPalle Yourgrau  \nLenin  \nLars T. Lih  \nreaktion books  \nPublished by Reaktion Books Ltd  \n33 Great Sutton Street London ec1v 0dx, uk [www.reaktionbooks.co.uk](www.reaktionbooks.co.uk)[ ](www.reaktionbooks.co.uk)First published 2011  \nCopyright © Lars T. Lih 2011  \nAll rights reserved  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain  \nby cpi/Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Lih, Lars T.  \nLenin.–(Critical lives)  \n1. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870–1924.  \n2. Revolutionaries – Soviet Union – Biography.  \n3. Heads of state – Soviet Union--Biography.  \n4. Soviet Union – Politics and government – 1917–1936 .  \nI. Title II. Series 947'.0841'092-dc22  \nisbn 978 1 86189 793 0  \nContents  \nIntroduction 7  \n1 Another Way 19  \n2 The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement 52  \n3 A People’s Revolution 84  \n4 Three Train Rides 121  \n5 Beyond the ‘Textbook à la Kautsky’ 154  \nEpilogue 192  \nReferences 215  \nSelect Bibliography 231  \nAcknowledgements 235  \nLenin, faced with new technology for spreading the word, seems somewhat nonplussed (March 1919) .  \nIntroduction  \nOn the shelves of my study, in serried ranks of blue, stand the 55 volumes ofthe fifth edition of the works of V. I. Lenin. In their way, these volumes – equipped with a fantastically elaborate scholarly apparatus detailing every name, book and even every proverb mentioned by their author – are the building blocks ofan intellectual mausoleum comparable to the corporeal mausoleum that still stands in Moscow. Just as impressive an accomplishment of what might be called embalming scholarship is the multivolume Vladimir Ilich Lenin: Biograficheskaia Khronika, consisting of over 8,000 pages detailing exactly what Lenin did on every day for which we have information (usually he was writing an article, issuing an intraparty protest, making a speech) .  \nAnd yet the very title of this biokhronika points to a biographical puzzle, since the name ‘Vladimir Ilich Lenin’ is a posthumous creation. The living man went by many names, but ‘Vladimir Ilich Lenin’ was not among them. Posterity’s need to refer to this man with a name he did not use during his lifetime gives us a sense of thedifficulty of capturing the essence of this passionately impersonal figure without mummifying him, either as saint or as bogeyman. What should we call him? He was christened, shortly after his birth in 1870, as Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov. ‘Ilich’ is a patronymic, meaning ‘son of Ilya’. 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