Carter Elwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carter Elwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carter |
| FAMILY NAME | Elwood |
| SIGNATURE | ELWOOD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lenin in Heidiland
In July 1916 Vladimir Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaia left on their annual holiday in the Swiss Alps. For eight weeks they stayed in the remote Kurhaus Tschudiwiese, high in the St Gallen Oberland south of Zurich, in a region now known as Heidiland. Lenin’s interest was in hiking, certainly not in Heidi, nor in plotting the revolution that was to topple Tsar Nicholas II less than six months after his return to civilization. As a result, thi…
The Non-Geometric Lenin
This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
The Sporting Life of V. I. Lenin
The conventional picture of V. I. Lenin found in all Soviet and most Western biographies is that of a man committed solely to factional politics and the attainment of revolutionary power. In 1953, N. V. Vol'skii, writing as Nikolay Valentinov, referred to this as "the geometric Lenin." He noted that there was another dimension to the Bolshevik leader: a man with very human foibles and, often, bourgeois tastes. One of the over-looked aspects of th…
Lenin on Holiday
Almost every summer before the Russian Revolution V.I. Lenin took a holiday. Unlike most of his revolutionary colleagues in emigration, and certainly unlike the Russian workers he professed to lead, he spent a month or more in the mountains or at the seashore. On occasion these holidays resulted in his being unavailable at decisive moments in the history of his party. This article suggests that these vacations were not simply reflections of self‐…
What Lenin Ate
This article is an attempt to make V.I. Lenin a little less ‘geometric’ by addressing a topic overlooked by most of his biographers: his attitude towards food and the nature of his diet. Based largely on his wife’s Reminiscences and their letters to his relatives, it discusses who did the cooking in the Ul′ianov household, where Lenin ate, what he ate and what he drank. It suggests that he did not view meals as social or business occasions and th…
Lenin and Armand
It is the nightmare of most authors that just before or immediately after the publication of a book that has taken years to complete, someone will find an unknown archive or gain access to a previously closed file and that material found therein will seriously undermine an argument the author has made.* This happened to me in 1992. A year and a half earlier I had delivered a 400-page manuscript entitled Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist t…
The Malinovskii affair
This article seeks to examine some of the theories advanced by Western writers to explain Roman Malinovskii's sudden resignation from the IV Duma in May 1914 and V.I. Lenin's subsequent defence of his fellow Central Committee member despite persistent rumours that he was an agent of the tsarist secret police. It finds no ‘smoking guns’ in the deluge of archival material concerning the ‘Malinovskii Affair’ that has appeared in Russian journals dur…
John W. Strong (1930–1997)
The Sporting Life of V. I. Lenin
The conventional picture of V. I. Lenin found in all Soviet and most Western biographies is that of a man committed solely to factional politics and the attainment of revolutionary power. In 1953, N. V. Vol'skii, writing as Nikolay Valentinov, referred to this as "the geometric Lenin." He noted that there was another dimension to the Bolshevik leader: a man with very human foibles and, often, bourgeois tastes. One of the over-looked aspects of th…
Lenin and Armand
It is the nightmare of most authors that just before or immediately after the publication of a book that has taken years to complete, someone will find an unknown archive or gain access to a previously closed file and that material found therein will seriously undermine an argument the author has made.* This happened to me in 1992. A year and a half earlier I had delivered a 400-page manuscript entitled Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist t…
The Malinovskii affair
This article seeks to examine some of the theories advanced by Western writers to explain Roman Malinovskii's sudden resignation from the IV Duma in May 1914 and V.I. Lenin's subsequent defence of his fellow Central Committee member despite persistent rumours that he was an agent of the tsarist secret police. It finds no ‘smoking guns’ in the deluge of archival material concerning the ‘Malinovskii Affair’ that has appeared in Russian journals dur…
What Lenin Ate
This article is an attempt to make V.I. Lenin a little less ‘geometric’ by addressing a topic overlooked by most of his biographers: his attitude towards food and the nature of his diet. Based largely on his wife’s Reminiscences and their letters to his relatives, it discusses who did the cooking in the Ul′ianov household, where Lenin ate, what he ate and what he drank. It suggests that he did not view meals as social or business occasions and th…
John W. Strong (1930–1997)
The Malinovskii affair
This article seeks to examine some of the theories advanced by Western writers to explain Roman Malinovskii's sudden resignation from the IV Duma in May 1914 and V.I. Lenin's subsequent defence of his fellow Central Committee member despite persistent rumours that he was an agent of the tsarist secret police. It finds no ‘smoking guns’ in the deluge of archival material concerning the ‘Malinovskii Affair’ that has appeared in Russian journals dur…
Lenin and Armand
It is the nightmare of most authors that just before or immediately after the publication of a book that has taken years to complete, someone will find an unknown archive or gain access to a previously closed file and that material found therein will seriously undermine an argument the author has made.* This happened to me in 1992. A year and a half earlier I had delivered a 400-page manuscript entitled Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist t…
What Lenin Ate
This article is an attempt to make V.I. Lenin a little less ‘geometric’ by addressing a topic overlooked by most of his biographers: his attitude towards food and the nature of his diet. Based largely on his wife’s Reminiscences and their letters to his relatives, it discusses who did the cooking in the Ul′ianov household, where Lenin ate, what he ate and what he drank. It suggests that he did not view meals as social or business occasions and th…
Lenin on Holiday
Almost every summer before the Russian Revolution V.I. Lenin took a holiday. Unlike most of his revolutionary colleagues in emigration, and certainly unlike the Russian workers he professed to lead, he spent a month or more in the mountains or at the seashore. On occasion these holidays resulted in his being unavailable at decisive moments in the history of his party. This article suggests that these vacations were not simply reflections of self‐…
The Sporting Life of V. I. Lenin
The conventional picture of V. I. Lenin found in all Soviet and most Western biographies is that of a man committed solely to factional politics and the attainment of revolutionary power. In 1953, N. V. Vol'skii, writing as Nikolay Valentinov, referred to this as "the geometric Lenin." He noted that there was another dimension to the Bolshevik leader: a man with very human foibles and, often, bourgeois tastes. One of the over-looked aspects of th…
The Non-Geometric Lenin
This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
Lenin in Heidiland
In July 1916 Vladimir Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaia left on their annual holiday in the Swiss Alps. For eight weeks they stayed in the remote Kurhaus Tschudiwiese, high in the St Gallen Oberland south of Zurich, in a region now known as Heidiland. Lenin’s interest was in hiking, certainly not in Heidi, nor in plotting the revolution that was to topple Tsar Nicholas II less than six months after his return to civilization. As a result, thi…
Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works) · Wife (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (2 works)