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Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 1: The Strengths of Contradiction
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Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 1: The Strengths of Contradiction Hardcover - 1985

by Robert Service

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Lenin's politics still reverberate around the world even after the death of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence. Yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography reveals Lenin in his full complexity as a revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person. 50 halftones. 3 maps.

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Palgrave Macmillan, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Atlas Folio - over 23 - 25" tall.
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  • Title Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 1: The Strengths of Contradiction
  • Author Robert Service
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint.
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, London:
  • Date 1985
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # c28193
  • ISBN 9780333293904 / 0333293908
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the jacket flap

LENIN: His politics still reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence. And 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 Illich 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 inter-war European politics. And we are shown how Lenin, despite the hardships he inflicted, was widely mourned after his death in 1924.

Robert Service's Lenin is a political colossus but also a believable human being. This biography stresses the importance of his supportive family and of its ethnic and cultural background. Service examines his education, upbringing, and the troubles of his early life to explain the emergence of a rebel whose devotion to destruction proved greater than his love for the 'proletariat' he supposedly served. We are enabled to see how his intellectual preoccupations and inner rage underwent volatile interaction and propelled his career from young Marxist activist to founder ofthe communist party and the Soviet state -- and how he bequeathed to Russia a legacy of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.

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