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Lenin : a biography, Robert Service

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Summary
"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 into global prominence. His book gives us the vast panorama of Russia in that awesome vortex of change from tsarism's collapse to the establishment of the communist one-party state. Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service focuses on dictatorship, the Marxist revolutionary dream, civil war, and interwar European politics. And we are shown how Lenin, despite the hardships he inflicted, was widely mourned upon his death in 1924." -- Publisher's description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xxv, 561 pages
Contents
  • Lenin and the party
  • Organisation of revolutionaries 1900-1902
  • "Holy fire" 1902-1904
  • Russia from far and near 1905-1907
  • 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
  • Rebel emerges
  • Russian cockpit May to July 1917
  • Power for the taking July to October 1917
  • 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
  • Ulyanoys and the blanks
  • New economic policy January to June 1921
  • 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
  • Childhood in simbirsk 1870-1885
  • Deaths in the family 1886-1887
  • Ploughing of the mind 1887-1888
  • Paths to revolution 1889-1893
  • St Petersurg 1893-1895
  • Siberian Italy 1895-1900
Isbn
9780674003309
Instance
Label
Lenin : a biography
Title
Lenin
Title remainder
a biography
Statement of responsibility
Robert Service
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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 into global prominence. His book gives us the vast panorama of Russia in that awesome vortex of change from tsarism's collapse to the establishment of the communist one-party state. Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service focuses on dictatorship, the Marxist revolutionary dream, civil war, and interwar European politics. And we are shown how Lenin, despite the hardships he inflicted, was widely mourned upon his death in 1924." -- Publisher's description
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1947-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Service, Robert
Dewey number
  • 947.084/1/092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
  • DK254.L4
  • DK254.L4
LC item number
  • S4323 2000
  • S48 2000
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Revolutionaries
  • Heads of state
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
  • Russia
  • Soviet Union
  • Leninismo
  • História da rússia
  • Comunismo
  • Biografias
  • Chefs d'État
  • Révolutionnaires
Label
Lenin : a biography, Robert Service
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [495]-530) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Lenin and the party
  • Organisation of revolutionaries 1900-1902
  • "Holy fire" 1902-1904
  • Russia from far and near 1905-1907
  • 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
  • Rebel emerges
  • Russian cockpit May to July 1917
  • Power for the taking July to October 1917
  • 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
  • Ulyanoys and the blanks
  • New economic policy January to June 1921
  • 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
  • Childhood in simbirsk 1870-1885
  • Deaths in the family 1886-1887
  • Ploughing of the mind 1887-1888
  • Paths to revolution 1889-1893
  • St Petersurg 1893-1895
  • Siberian Italy 1895-1900
Control code
43311809
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xxv, 561 pages
Isbn
9780674003309
Lccn
00021394
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)43311809
Label
Lenin : a biography, Robert Service
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [495]-530) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Lenin and the party
  • Organisation of revolutionaries 1900-1902
  • "Holy fire" 1902-1904
  • Russia from far and near 1905-1907
  • 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
  • Rebel emerges
  • Russian cockpit May to July 1917
  • Power for the taking July to October 1917
  • 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
  • Ulyanoys and the blanks
  • New economic policy January to June 1921
  • 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
  • Childhood in simbirsk 1870-1885
  • Deaths in the family 1886-1887
  • Ploughing of the mind 1887-1888
  • Paths to revolution 1889-1893
  • St Petersurg 1893-1895
  • Siberian Italy 1895-1900
Control code
43311809
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xxv, 561 pages
Isbn
9780674003309
Lccn
00021394
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)43311809

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