Robert Service

Lenin: A Political Life (eBook, PDF)

Volume 2: Worlds in Collision

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 435
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349137855
• Artikelnr.: 45503694

Autorenporträt

Robert Service

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Retreat Without Mercy - Closing the Circle - Only One Year - And Ours Shall Be The Victory - The Tar in the Honey - Less Politics! - The Rifle and Sickle - Against the Wall - Testament to a Revolution - Deaths and Entrances - Epilogue - Endnotes - 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