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I like Service's style a lot. For one thing, his narrative is extremely readable and he keeps you interested while delivering the important events in Lenin's life.
Secondly, Service does the reader a favor by usually present the several sides of controversies, and then telling you his own take. This allows one to be aware of the controversies, even to disagree with Service, but still be a full participant in the book.
Lenin's childhood is very interesting. He came from a good home and showed great promise early on. The eventual monster that he became was a result of his abandoning God and sinking into the demonic works of Marxism. A tragedy for not only him but Russia as well.
When Lenin took the reigns of power, he reversed all his promises to the working class about making their lives better and turned into a merciless task master and murderer, taking out those who brought him to power.
This should be a lesson for anyone who thinks the Marxists are going to save them. Because they won't. They will, instead, mercilessly destroy you.
*update: It is very sad to see that Service has succumbed to Putin Derangement Syndrome of late. This must be political, as the Hoover institute is a NeoCon institute that requires one toe the line. Very sad.
*update2: It is interesting to look at Robert Service's Wikipedia page, which has, as its only substance, a virulent attack on his Trotsky biography by modern Trotskyites. Interesting to see how many rabid murderous commies are still around today, and a very good indication that his Trotsky book is top notch. I will be reading it next.


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Lenin A Biography Robert Service Books Reviews

Am newly fascinated with the history and people of the Russian Revolution and this book was a wonderful explanation of Lenin, whose imprint is clearly part of history. He’s ruthless and determined and our world paid a dear price. Wish we would show how this history could easily repeat itself.
Read Lenin's bio first, will read Stalin's bio shortly, and was impressed with Service's thorough examination of Lenin's life, political and revolutionary activities, and his thorough account of his health and political life as well. A great bio of one of the world's most influential leaders. Highly recommended.
this is an excellent book and I enjoyed it much. there was a lot I didn't know about Lenin and this book help me understand him beyond the obvious destruction he caused and the lust for terror and power and the vengeance he sought for the execution of his brother by the czar. and the persecution and ostracism his family went through after this. he came from a very educated background/family which demonstrates the power of education.
It's not easy to find a fair biography of Lenin, but Service's bio, published nearly 20 years ago, has to go down as one of the most authoritative -- and one of the least biased.

Balancing between works presenting Ulyanov as either a demon or a god, Service's Lenin is a flawed genius who is committed to his revolution by whatever methods are required.

The book is very readable and avoids getting too bogged down in details or petty party squabbles, while keeping the reader informed about the serious controversies and issues the Bolsheviks had to face during the revolution. For a history of the beginning of the Soviet Union, there are better books out there -- but if you are looking to get behind the man himself, to work out what motivated him and drove him, you simply can't go wrong with this book.
Avery engaging biography of Lenin, especially in his early years as a precocious child, but an intellectual who read the classics, who was greatly influenced by Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the novels of Turgenev, both their style and ambiguous contents.

The October Revolution has a virulence to it that other studies lack, and a clarity that only Dvid Shub gives in his much earlier account of Lenin as a Revolutionary. Service's account of Lenin's return to Russia at gthe Finland Dtation has more of the immedoacy of truth, but again Shub is best here.
Service excels in describing Lenin's solution to the Great War as far as the new Russia was concerned in the April Theses. Lenin said,
We will not stick a bayonet in the ground and call this peace." Gripping. Sounds more like the great Trotsky.

The war was caused by capitalists for the last 50 or 60 years according to Lenin, and only a "non-democratic peace could crush this terrible influence, i.e. the proletariat which must advance its own interests as a class." The Russian Revolution of October 1017 was therefore the beginning pof that process, to change imperialism into communism.

Service points carefully to these "causes and effects" and may leave much undisclosed, but the topic sentences are out there on the table.

I recommend this book.

The Trotsky book, no.
I like Service's style a lot. For one thing, his narrative is extremely readable and he keeps you interested while delivering the important events in Lenin's life.
Secondly, Service does the reader a favor by usually present the several sides of controversies, and then telling you his own take. This allows one to be aware of the controversies, even to disagree with Service, but still be a full participant in the book.
Lenin's childhood is very interesting. He came from a good home and showed great promise early on. The eventual monster that he became was a result of his abandoning God and sinking into the demonic works of Marxism. A tragedy for not only him but Russia as well.
When Lenin took the reigns of power, he reversed all his promises to the working class about making their lives better and turned into a merciless task master and murderer, taking out those who brought him to power.
This should be a lesson for anyone who thinks the Marxists are going to save them. Because they won't. They will, instead, mercilessly destroy you.
*update It is very sad to see that Service has succumbed to Putin Derangement Syndrome of late. This must be political, as the Hoover institute is a NeoCon institute that requires one toe the line. Very sad.
*update2 It is interesting to look at Robert Service's Wikipedia page, which has, as its only substance, a virulent attack on his Trotsky biography by modern Trotskyites. Interesting to see how many rabid murderous commies are still around today, and a very good indication that his Trotsky book is top notch. I will be reading it next.