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.
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. The
author 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 see how his intellectual preoccupations and
inner rage underwent volatile interaction and propelled his career
from young Marxist activist to founder of the communistparty 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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