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Lenin - A Biography (Paperback, Reprints)
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Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century
history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a
calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure.
Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece
together the private as well as the public life, giving the first
complete picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides
an account of one of the greatest turning points in modern history.
Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service examines events such
as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the
one-party state, economic modernisation, dictatorship, and the
politics of inter-war Europe. In discovering the origins of the
USSR, he casts light on the nature of the state and society which
Lenin left behind and which have not entirely disappeared after the
collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. 'Immensely scholarly but
also vivid and readable. This is a splendid book, much the best
that I have ever read about Lenin ...I was overwhelmed by the power
and vividness of this portrait.' Dominic Lieven, Sunday Telegraph
'He has managed skilfully to depict the surreal life of an
obsessive, brilliant and stubborn individual' Guardian 'Lenin's
life was politics, but Service has succeeded in keeping Lenin the
man in focus throughout . . . This book deserves a place among the
best studies of one of the most fascinating figures in modern
history' Harold Shukman, The Times
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