Lenin

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Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century These political biographies are intended to analyse in depth the real men lurking behind the personality cults of great contemporary statesmen. Their purpose is to explain how such political leaders as Mao Tse-tung and Macmillan, de Gaulle and Stalin, Verwoerd and Fidel Castro förmed their political outlooks, to examine how they gained power and how they held and exercised it, and to suggest what each has come to epitomize in the eyes of his own nation and of the world at large. Political loyalties tend to mask the truth In most biographies of Lenin. Of those that maintain objective standards, Dávid Shub's treatment is likely to be the choice of the generál reader, because of its neat unión of scholarship and readability. This is its first appearance in Britain in an unabridged edition. Born and educated in Russia, Dávid Shub joined the Social Democratic Party as a very young man and frequently met Lenin and other leaders abroad. After... Tovább

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Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century These political biographies are intended to analyse in depth the real men lurking behind the personality cults of great contemporary statesmen. Their purpose is to explain how such political leaders as Mao Tse-tung and Macmillan, de Gaulle and Stalin, Verwoerd and Fidel Castro förmed their political outlooks, to examine how they gained power and how they held and exercised it, and to suggest what each has come to epitomize in the eyes of his own nation and of the world at large. Political loyalties tend to mask the truth In most biographies of Lenin. Of those that maintain objective standards, Dávid Shub's treatment is likely to be the choice of the generál reader, because of its neat unión of scholarship and readability. This is its first appearance in Britain in an unabridged edition. Born and educated in Russia, Dávid Shub joined the Social Democratic Party as a very young man and frequently met Lenin and other leaders abroad. After taking part in the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was exiled to Siberia, but escaped to the U.S.A. Thereafter he still kept up his contact with the revolutionary leaders, with many of whom he was personally acquainted. Few writers have been so well placed to provide a true picture of one of the most influential figures of this century. Cover by Snark International For copyright reasons this edition isnotforsale in the U.S.A. or Canada Vissza