Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision

Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision - Hardcover

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Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision

Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision - Hardcover

by Robert Service
$89.08
Sale price  $89.08 Regular price 

Book Overview

In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstances in Russia and the world enabling Lenin to come to power in 1917. He also details ways whereby Lenin led a turbulent Bolshevik party and adjusted its policies so as to gain authority in the soviets. Lenin the crafty and pragmatic politican as well as the utopian and merciless class warrior are portrayed.

ISBN9780333293911
Author Robert Service
PublisherPalgrave MacMillan
GenreBiography, News & politics, and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 1991
LanguageENG- English
Pages435
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Robert Service

Often referred to as the "Bard of the Yukon," Robert Service was a prolific novelist and poet, publishing numerous poetry collections, two autobiographies, and six novels during his lifetime. Though he was born in England, he is best known for his writings set in Northwest Canada featuring the Klondike Gold Rush. Service died in 1958, and has since been honored on a Canadian postage stamp and has had various schools in Canada named after him.

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