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

ISBN-13: 9780333293928 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 393 str.

Robert Service

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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