Full name: Lenin: A Biography

Author: Robert Service Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780674008281 0674008286

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography makes use of archive material to piece together his private as well as public life in an effort to give a complete picture of Lenin in all his different roles. Through the prism of Lenin's career, the author examines events such as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the one-party state, economic modernization, dictatorship and the politics of inter-war Europe. He casts light on the nature of the state and society left behind by Lenin, a state and society which has not entirely disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. Similar books: Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov Conspirator by Helen Rappaport Khrushchev by William Taubman Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude Stalin by Isaac Deutscher Stalin by Robert Service Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin Stalin by Robert Conquest Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore Gorbachev by William Taubman Trotsky by Robert Service The Prophet Unarmed by Isaac Deutscher Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins