Three Who Made a Revolution (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Bertram D. Wolfe
- First Published: 1948
- Time of Work: 1870–1917
- Setting: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tiflis, Odessa, Simbirsk, and Samara, Russia
- Principal Characters: Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, George Valentinovich Plekhanov, Roman Malinovsky, Alexander Ilich Ulyanov, Nadia Krupskaya, Julius Martov
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Leadership, Revolutions, Espionage or spies, Biography, Proletariat, Russian Revolution, Propaganda
- Locales: Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, Odessa, Ukraine
Form and Content
With Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History, Bertram D. Wolfe has written a classic account of the origins of the Marxist triumph in Russia by describing the lives of the three most important people who were responsible for the new Russia: Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. Except for some necessary allusions to a later period, the account ends with the state of Bolshevism on the eve of its revolutionary triumph.
After an essay on the condition of Russia in the nineteenth century, Wolfe vividly describes Lenin’s...
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