General Information

Author/Creator

Service, Robert, 1947-

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2000.

Physical Description

xxv, 561 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"This biography stresses the importance of Lenin's 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 of the 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"--from the cover

Subjects

Subject

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.

Heads of state > Soviet Union > Biography.

Revolutionaries > Russia > Biography.

Russia > Politics and government > 1894-1917.

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Robert Service.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0674003306

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.084/1/092 SER		General Stacks	-

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