Lenin

Making use of recently opened archives, Robert Service has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving a picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides an account of one of the greatest turning points in modern history. Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service examines events such as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the one-party state, economic modernisation, dictatorship, and the politics of inter-war Europe. In discovering the origins of the USSR, he casts light on the nature of the state and society which Lenin left behind and which have not entirely disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. 

Softcover. English. Pan Macmillan. 2010. 561 pp. In good condition. Book No: 18094