Lenin: A Biography

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Harvard University Press, 2000 - 561 頁
LENIN: His politics still reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence. And 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 Illich 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 inter-war European politics. And we are shown how Lenin, despite the hardships he inflicted, was widely mourned after his death in 1924.

Robert Service's Lenin is a political colossus but also a believable human being. This biography stresses the importance of his supportive family and of its ethnic and cultural background. Service examines his education, upbringing, and the troubles of his early life to explain the emergence of a rebel whose devotion to destruction proved greater than his love for the 'proletariat' he supposedly served. We are enabled to see how his intellectual preoccupations and inner rage underwent volatile interaction and propelled his career from young Marxist activist to founder ofthe communist party and the Soviet state -- and how he bequeathed to Russia a legacy of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.

 

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INTRODUCTION
1
THE REBEL EMERGES
11
THE ULYANOVS AND THE BLANKS
13
CHILDHOOD IN SIMBIRSK 18701885
31
DEATHS IN THE FAMILY 18861887
47
THE PLOUGHING OF THE MIND 18871888
61
PATHS TO REVOLUTION 18891893
74
ST PETERSBURG 18931895
91
THE RUSSIAN COCKPIT May to July 1917
270
POWER FOR THE TAKING
287
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION October to December 1917
308
DICTATORSHIP UNDER SIEGE Winter 19171918
324
BRESTLITOVSK January to May 1918
338
AT GUNPOINT May to August 1918
356
DEFENCE OF THE REVOLUTION
371
WAR LEADER 19181919
373

TO SIBERIAN ITALY 18951900
107
LENIN AND THE PARTY
127
AN ORGANISATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES 19001902
129
HOLY FIRE 19021904
147
RUSSIA FROM FAR AND NEAR 19051907
166
THE SECOND EMIGRATION 19081911
184
ALMOST RUSSIA 19121914
202
FIGHTING FOR DEFEAT 19141915
222
LASTING OUT 19151916
235
SEIZING POWER
251
ANOTHER COUNTRY February to April 1917
253
EXPANDING THE REVOLUTION April 1919 to April 1920
391
DEFEAT IN THE WEST 1920
406
THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
421
A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL July 1921 to July 1922
435
DISPUTING TO THE LAST September to December 1922
451
DEATH IN THE BIG HOUSE 19231924
464
THE AFTERLIFE
481
Notes
495
Select Bibliography
522
Index
531
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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.

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