The rapid and ever-increasing growth of Leniniana-literature about the founder and leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet State-has made it an important task to understand this literature historiographically, to thoroughly analyze and record the work on the life and work of V. I. Lenin, including his biographies from the first experiments of their creation to scientific publications (the last ones). years. This topic is extensive, and its study is just beginning. This article attempts to characterize the main editions of V. I. Lenin's biographies and trace the stages in the development of this important work.
The first reference and biographical reference to Lenin in Russian encyclopedic publications dates back to 1900, when the second volume of the Maly Encyclopedic Dictionary by Brockhaus and Efron contained a laconic reference "Ilyin Vladimir", indicating that he was an economist, a representative of Marxism, and a list of a number of his works: "Economic Studies and articles", "The development of capitalism in Russia" and others 1 . Similar short excerpts were published in subsequent years: in 1901-in the" Encyclopedia " of M. M. Filippov (t, 2), in 1905 and 1907 - in the "Encyclopedia" (2nd, ispr. ed.) of F. F. Pavlenkov, in 1908-in the "Small Encyclopedia". Brockhaus and Efron Dictionary (vol. 2, vol. III) and in the " Big Encyclopedia "(vol. 21), in 1915-in the" Encyclopedia Dictionary "of Pomegranates (vol. 27) and the "Encyclopedia" of Brockhaus and Efron (vol. 24), in the " Russian Encyclopedia "(vol. 11) , in 1915-1916 - in 1-mi 2- m volumes of S. Vengerov's" Critical and Biographical Dictionary of Russian Writers and Scientists " 2 . Moreover, if in the dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron (1900) the pseudonym " V. Ilyin" has not yet been disclosed, then in the additional edition of 1907 of the second edition of the dictionary of F. P. Tolstoy. Pavlenkov it is already being revealed.
Along with these purely reference publications, works appeared in th ...
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