Christopher Read (University of Warw Emeritus Professor of History

Gebundenes Buch

Lenin Lives?

Beschreibung

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging account of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Through a brief but stimulating and penetrating account of his life and chief ideas the study examines how 'Leninism' emerged and became a global force.

Autor

Christopher Read's scholarly work has focused on the cultural, social and political history of modern Russia with a central emphasis on the revolutions of 1917 and the wider period from 1900-1941. He also has a particular interest in the social and political thought of the Russian intelligentsia from its origins to the present. Read studied at Keele, Glasgow and Leningrad Universities and the London School of Economics, and taught in the History Department at Warwick from 1973 to 2019 and conducted research at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Berkeley, Leningrad/St.Petersburg, Moscow, and the Soviet and Russian Academies of Science. Read is currently Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780198866084
• ISBN-10: 0198866089
• Artikelnr.: 68801709