The life of Lenin - Fischer, Louis 1896-1970 (Harper & Row, 1964)
Contents: 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?"