Lenin: A Revolutionary Life

✍ Scribed by Read, Christopher

• Book ID: 108353752
• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 566 KB
• Series: aVe4EvA 130
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0203644794

✦ Synopsis

This biography gives a fresh and original account of Lenin's personal life and political career. Christopher Read draws on a broad range of primary and secondary sources, making use of archive material made available in the Glasnost and post-Soviet eras. Focal points of this study are Lenin's revolutionary ascetic personality; his exploitation of cultural, educational and propaganda means; his relationship to Marxism; his changing class analysis of Russia; and his "populist" instincts. This biography is an excellent and reliable introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-tsarist Russia.