Lenin A Biography

Name: Lenin A Biography
Price: 7.22 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780674008281

ISBN-10: 0674008286

ISBN-13: 9780674008281

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert Service

List price: $34.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy used: $7.22

Marketplace

4 new & used from $7.80

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Lenin's politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us Lenin as we have never seen him, in his full complexity as revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person. Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870, the son of a schools inspector and a doctor's daughter, Lenin was to become the greatest single force in the Soviet revolution--and perhaps the most influential politician of the twentieth century. Drawing on sources only recently discovered, Robert Service explores the social, cultural, and political catalysts for Lenin's explosion…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.73" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography.



Preface


Note on Transliteration and Calendars


List of Illustrations


Glossary of Names of Lenin and his Family


Maps


Introduction



The Rebel Emerges



The Ulyanovs and the Blanks



Childhood in Simbirsk 1870-1885



Deaths in the Family 1886-1887



The Ploughing of the Mind 1887-1888



Paths to Revolution 1889-1893



St Petersburg 1893-1895



To Siberian Italy 1895-1900



Lenin and the Party



An Organisation of Revolutionaries 1900-1902



'Holy Fire' 1902-1904



Russia From Far and Near 1905-1907



The Second Emigration 1908-1911



Almost Russia! 1912-1914



Fighting for Defeat 1914-1915



Lasting Out 1915-1916



Seizing Power



Another Country February to April 1917



The Russian Cockpit May to July 1917



Power for the Taking July to October 1917



The October Revolution October to December 1917



Dictatorship Under Siege Winter 1917-1918



Brest-Litovsk January to May 1918



At Gunpoint May to August 1918



Defence of the Revolution



War Leader 1918-1919



Expanding the Revolution April 1919 to April 1920



Defeat in the West 1920



The New Economic Policy January to June 1921



A Question of Survival July 1921 to July 1922



Disputing to the Last September to December 1922



Death in the Big House 1923-1924


Lenin: The Afterlife


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index