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Lenin: A Political Life

Volume 3: The Iron Ring

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Robert Service

    1. London, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Merciless Retreat

    • Robert Service
    Pages 1-28

  3. Closing the Circle

    • Robert Service
    Pages 29-57

  4. Only One Year

    • Robert Service
    Pages 58-87

  5. And Ours Shall Be the Victory

    • Robert Service
    Pages 88-116

  6. The Tar in the Honey

    • Robert Service
    Pages 117-151

  7. Less Politics!

    • Robert Service
    Pages 152-184

  8. The Rifle and Sickle

    • Robert Service
    Pages 185-218

  9. Against the Wall

    • Robert Service
    Pages 219-255

  10. Testament to a Revolution

    • Robert Service
    Pages 256-290

  11. Deaths and Entrances

    • Robert Service
    Pages 291-316

  12. Epilogue

    • Robert Service
    Pages 317-323

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 324-393
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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.

Reviews

'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

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  • London, UK

    Robert Service

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