LEADER 02025cam a2200373 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20221018105610.0 008 000110s2000 mauab b 001 0beng 010 00021394 020 0674003306 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 e-ur--- 050 00 DK254.L4 |bS4323 2000 082 00 947.084/1/092 |221 100 1 Service, Robert, |d1947- 245 10 Lenin--a biography / |cRobert Service. 260 Cambridge, MA : |bHarvard University Press, |c2000. 300 xxv, 561 p. : |bill., maps ; |c25 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "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 580 Donation of Anatole Shub 600 10 Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, |d1870-1924. 650 0 Heads of state |zSoviet Union |vBiography. 650 0 Revolutionaries |zRussia |vBiography. 651 0 Russia |xPolitics and government |y1894-1917. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1917-1936. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_084000000000000_1_092_SER |70 |8GEN |9160905OSA |bOSA |d2022-10-17 |eShub |l0 |o947.084/1/092 SER |r2022-10-17 |w2022-10-17 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 MomVyzXD 992 01 947_084000000000000_1_092_SER |bQVS_ZRVZZZZZZZZZZZZ_Y_ZQX_7L8 966 |cIn the Research Room