Download or read book Lenin: A Political Life written by Robert Service and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.