The life of Lenin / Louis Fisher, 1896-1970 

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Two brothers -- A leader is born -- The spark and the fire -- The essential Lenin -- Capitalism's death sentence -- Communists and the state -- Peace is a problem -- The end and the beginning -- Man makes history -- A fateful day -- Christmas and December Twenty-Eighth -- The generals and the Commissar -- Lenin's will power -- Lenin versus the left -- A murder in Moscow -- Journey without a baedeker -- Building a state -- Chicherin and Lenin -- Lenin wounded -- The emerging pattern of the civil war -- Woodrow Wilson and Russia -- Lenin and the German revolution -- Lenin and Maxim Gorky -- The long arm -- Peace is a weapon -- One touch of idealism -- Two souls in one breast -- Cold victory -- Tales of a hunter -- Russian versus Pole : the grand design -- Lenin laughs -- Eager undertaker -- The "new" diplomacy -- Caviar and horses and the death of a beloved -- Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky -- The evening before capitalism -- The steel that bends -- Lenin on Marx -- Lenin on art and literature --  The party -- The statesman's salt -- The Third International -- Soviet foreign policy -- A dream dies -- The uses of gold -- The future was present -- Stalin versus Lenin -- When I saw Lenin -- The second bell -- Lenin's last will and testament -- Unhappy Lenin -- The end -- Appendix : "Did Stalin poison Lenin?