Lenin: A Political Life
Volume 2: Worlds in Collision
Published on 27. July 2016
XVIII, 435 pages
978-1-349-13785-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Dr Service has made excellent use of freshly available original documents but even without them this book would have been outstanding.' - Susan Walker, International Affairs
'...immensely detailed, scholarly biography....' - Richard Pendry, New Statesman and Society
'Robert Service takes such a most welcome broad view in the second volume of his projected trilogy... For this eagerly awaited end to his labours, all power to the Service elbow.' - Paul Dukes, Times Higher Education Supplement
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06/1995
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
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
