Bibliograph

Lenin, a biography, Robert Service

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Label

Lenin, a biography, Robert Service

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lenin

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43311809

Responsibility statement

Robert Service

Sub title

a biography

Summary

"Lenin's politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us Lenin as we have never seen him, in his full complexity as revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person. Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870, the son of a schools inspector and a doctor's daughter, Lenin was to become the greatest single force in the Soviet revolution--and perhaps the most influential politician of the twentieth century. Drawing on sources only recently discovered, Robert Service explores the social, cultural, and political catalysts for Lenin's explosion into global prominence. His book gives us the vast panorama of Russia in that awesome vortex of change from tsarism's collapse to the establishment of the communist one-party state. Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service focuses on dictatorship, the Marxist revolutionary dream, civil war, and interwar European politics. And we are shown how Lenin, despite the hardships he inflicted, was widely mourned upon his death in 1924"--Publisher's description

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Contributor