Lenin: A Political Life
Volume 3: The Iron Ring
Published on 27. July 2016
XXI, 393 pages
978-1-349-05594-4 (ISBN)
Description
The final volume of Robert Service's major trilogy on Lenin's political life takes the account from the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of 1918 to the Bolshevik leader's death in 1924. Attention is paid to the military, political and economic conditions as they changed; to the internal pressures of the party's politics; to ideological imperatives; and to one man's reaction to events and situations he had only imperfectly anticipated. The volume incorporates not only the post-1985 documentary revelations but also the results of the author's searches in the Moscow archives since 1991.
Reviews / Votes
'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
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Content
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
