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Robert Service: Trotsky

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of…

Robert Service: Lenin: A Biography

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: «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…

Robert Service: Stalin: A Biography

Скачать книгу (размер 3 640 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 715) Аннотация: «Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material — available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union — Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his…

Robert Service: Comrades: Communism: A World History

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion — and an important message for the twenty-first century – is that although communism in its original form is now dead or dying, the poverty and…