Robert Service

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Lenin: A Political Life (eBook, PDF)

Volume 2: Worlds in Collision

Beschreibung

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.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 44.58MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Produktdetails

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

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