Lenin and his biographers
VLADIMIR ILYICH Lenin remains an object of interest to people around the world even today. Many people have no clear conception, or no conception at all, of who this man was, but there are significant numbers who do. For some he remains an object of fear and hate, for others of passionate hope, for some of disappointment—with others defined by yet other categories. “Tell me what you think of Lenin,” writes historian Christopher Read, “and I will tell you who you are.” One of the most challenging and idiosyncratic political theorists of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt, commented in her reflection On Revolution that “it is perhaps noteworthy that Lenin, unlike Hitler and Stalin, has not yet found his definitive biographer, although he was not merely a ‘better’ but an incomparably simpler man; it may be because his role in twentieth-century history is so much more equivocal and difficult to understand.”1
The full-scale biographies emerging in the last half of the twentieth century were all problematica Those produced in the Soviet Union presented a granite statue of greatness, used to justify the existing order: the icon had been wonderful in e
Lenin: A Biography, by Robert Service
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Essay on Lenin: Bio, Life and Political Ideas
After reading this article you will learn about Lenin:- 1. Short Life History of Lenin 2. Background of Lenin&#;s Thought 3. Political Ideas.
Short Life History of Lenin:
The family name of this world famous revolutionary and a great interpreter of the political ideas of Marx and Engels is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was born on 22 April (in old style or system of calculation it was 10 April).
Simbirsk was Ulyanov&#;s birth-place and it is now called Ulyanovsk. From the end of he came to be known as &#;Lenin&#; because in his writings he used that pseudonym.
Vladimir&#;s father Ilya Nikolayevich was an educated person and held the post of school inspector. He had also direct and strong connection with Russian particularly Tsarist bureaucracy and in bureaucratic circle he was a respected person.
Ilya Nikolayevich took special care of his children&#;s education. Though he was very much religious-minded and imparted religion-based education upon his children he was not a bigot.
His elder brother Alexander was a student of Petersburg University and from his early-hood he was revolutionary in his attitude and activities
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Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first complete picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides an account of one of the greatest turning points in modern history. Through the prism of Lenin&#;s career, Service examines events such as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the one-party state, economic modernisation, dictatorship, and the politics of inter-war Europe. In discovering the origins of the USSR, he casts light on the nature of the state and society which Lenin left behind and which have not entirely disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet regime in &#;Immensely scholarly but also vivid and readable. This is a splendid book, much the best that I have ever read about Lenin &#;I was overwhelmed by the power and vividness of this portrait.&#; Dominic Lieven, Sunday Telegraph &#;He has managed skilfully to depict the surreal life of an obsess
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