Robert Service

Lenin: A Political Life

Volume 1: The Strengths of Contradiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-29390-4
• 1985
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780333293904
• ISBN-10: 0333293908
• Artikelnr.: 44431959

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Second Edition - Notes and Acknowledgements - Prologue: The Enigma of Lenin - Cross-Currents - Roads to Freedom - Arrivals - Capitalism in One Country - Straightening Sticks - From this Accursed Distance - Sturm und Drang - Predicting the Tide - For the Good of the Cause - Doubts and Certainties - Notes - Index

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List of Plates
Notes and Acknowledgements
Foreword to the Second Edition
All or Nothing: 1910
1912
Storms before the Storm: 1912
1914
Ad Extirpanda: 1914
1915
War's Divisions: 1915
1916
Unsealed Messages: 1916 to April 1917
There Is Such a Party! April to July 1917
The Fire Next Time: July to September 1917
To All the Peoples: September to October 1917
The View from Petrograd: November to December 1917
The Obscene Peace: January to March 1918
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

'This is undoubtedly the best study of Lenin the political leader written to date, and it is likely to remain so for some time.' - John Barber, London Review of Books

'...Robert Service...has provided a rich, balanced portrait of the Bolshevik leader that presents the case for the defence as well as the prosecution.' - John Keep, Times Literary Supplement