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Description for Lenin
Hardback. This second volume of the author's trilogy on Lenin stretches from 1910 to 1918. It combines studies of his ideas, his activity and the social and political background. The book also contains commentaries by his contemporaries as well as the latest documentary output from Soviet archives. Num Pages: 435 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstances in Russia and the world enabling Lenin to come to power in 1917. He also details ways whereby Lenin led a turbulent Bolshevik party and adjusted its policies so as to gain authority in the soviets. Lenin the crafty and pragmatic politican as well as the utopian and merciless class warrior are portrayed.
In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstances in Russia and the world enabling Lenin to come to power in 1917. He also details ways whereby Lenin led a turbulent Bolshevik party and adjusted its policies so as to gain authority in the soviets. Lenin the crafty and pragmatic politican as well as the utopian and merciless class warrior are portrayed.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
435
Condition
New
Number of Pages
435
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333293911
SKU
V9780333293911
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99-15
Reviews for Lenin
'Dr Service has made excellent use of freshly available original documents but even without them this book would have been outstanding.' - Susan Walker, International Affairs '...immensely detailed, scholarly biography....' - Richard Pendry, New Statesman and Society 'Robert Service takes such a most welcome broad view in the second volume of his projected trilogy... ... Read more