This coming year two biographies of revolutionaries of exceptional note are being published in the Historical Materialism Book Series. They are the biographies of Alexander Shlyapnikov by Barbara C. Allen (studied under Rabinowitch) and Paul Mattick by Gary Roth (wrote a review in Insurgent Notes). I was wondering if anyone else has some recommendations for book length biographies of revolutionaries who were active in the 1917-1923 wave. Below im going to start the list off on some that i know of. People can add their recommendations or comment on how useful or otherwise these biographies are.
Luxemburg
Frolich (39)
Nettl (66)
Lenin
really dont know which ones are good
Trotsky
Victor Serge & Natalia Sedova (47)
Deutscher (54-63)
Broue (88)
Bukharin
Cohen (80) really unsure how good this one could be
Victor Serge
Weissman (01) cant see how much better this could be then his own memoirs
Kollontai
Clements (79)
Porter (80)
Martov
Getzler (67)
Stalin
Service (04)
Pannekoek
Gerber (89)
Pankhurst
Winslow (96)
Any book length bios on left wing dissident bolsheviks, im thinking Radek, Sapronov, Smirnov, Ossinsky, Lomov, Piatakov? or others?
For Lenin: The best recent
For Lenin: The best recent biography is Lars Lih's "Lenin" (2011, Reaktion Books).
-For Radek: not a great book but so far the best book in English is Warren Lerner's, "The Last Internationalist" (1970)
-Stephen Cohen, "Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938" is so far the best on Bukharin.
-H. Schurer's essays on Pannekoek, Radek, Luxemburg and Lenin are extremely interesting and important but a bit dated.
-Historical materialism also published very important studies/selected/collected works of Preobrazhensky and Levi.
-Another important book HM recently published is the translation of Hoffrogge's biography of Richard Muller, who was a prominent leader of German Obleute movement.
-Finally for the American scene, Paul Buhle's books ("A Dreamer's Paradise Lost" on Fraina and "Marxism in the United States") can be considered as the best introductory works.
thanks mikail i missed that
thanks mikail i missed that richard muller bio when i was scanning the HM site, it looks great. im glad lars lih has a shorter more digestible book on lenin. His 880 pages on WITBD kind of intimidates me and i think would be a real test to my concentation. From what i can gather Lih describes Lenin as more stricter discipline of kautsky then most but thinking his 2nd international hang ups arent that bad a thing all things considered. Lih actually lives in the same city as I so maybe reading his bio would give me some courage to stop by his office hours.
When reading such history one
When reading such history one often finds the Russian word "sochinenia" in the footnotes. Can anyone translate it?
It's "Works" or "Writings".
It's "Works" or "Writings".
Bukharin and the Bolshevik
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938" is so far the best on Bukharin.????
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