Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 3: The Iron Ring

by Robert Service

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333293928
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/18/1995
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	393
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'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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