Pomper - Lenins brother : the origins of the October Revolution

Every work of history requires institutional support and the expert help of many people. I am grateful to Wesleyan University, whose administrators, trustees, and fellow faculty members supported the research and writing of this book with more than one sabbatical. Colleaguesspecialists in the Russian area and in other disciplinesallowed me to present my ideas in several forums and gave helpful feedback. I would also like to thank the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences for inviting me to present the story of Alexander Ulyanov to its distinguished members. A multitude of archivists and librarians in Moscow, New York, Washington, and Middletown, Connecticut, provided me with the requisite documents, microfilms, and published books and articles. I am especially grateful to Jim Billington, Librarian of Congress and fellow worker in the vineyard of Russian history, and his staff in the European Reading Room of the Library of Congress. Ed Kasinec, Curator of the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library and his staff were very helpful and attentive to me and my project. The librarians in the Interlibrary Loan Office at Wesleyan gave prompt and vigilant service. I also used Harvard University and Columbia University libraries on numerous occasions. In Moscow I drew on the unmatched resources of the Russian State Library in 2004 and 2006 and relied heavily on the expert services of the archivists at the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI).

Id like to thank Jeff Gerecke, my agent, for shepherding the project. For the production of the book I owe a great deal to the expert help of my colleague Julie Perkins, whose mastery of the Chicago Manual of Style and excellent eye and ear allowed me to pass on to Maria Guarnaschelli, my editor at Norton, a text whose deficiencies could be remedied mainly by her prodding me into doing a better job at setting the scene and giving readers the information they needed to feel comfortable in nineteenth-century Russia. I am very grateful to the editors at Norton and Marias assistant, Melanie Tortoroli, for their care, advice, and meticulous work with the manuscript. Thanks to Kevin Wiliarty, Academic Technology Coordinator in Wesleyans Information Technology Services, for advice about technical aspects of the project and John Wareham, Scientific Photographer in Wesleyans Scientific Support Services, for his skillful work with the maps and photos that appear in this volume.