title: Lenin: A Biography
author:  Robert Service 
description: '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 obsessive, brilliant and stubborn individual' Guardian; 'Lenin's life was politics, but Service has succeeded in keeping Lenin the man in focus throughout... This book deserves a place among the best studies of one of the most fascinating figures in modern history' Harold Shukman, The Times
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  ## **STALIN**  
  
  
  A BIOGRAPHY
  
  
  
  
  
  ROBERT SERVICE is the author of the highly acclaimed _Lenin: A Biography_
  (which won the US _ForeWord_ magazine’s History Book of the Year Award in
  2000), _A History of Twentieth-Century Russia_ and _Russia: Experiment with a
  People_ as well as many other books on Russia’s past and present. He is a
  Fellow of the British Academy and works at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is
  married with four children.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Robert Service
  
  
  
  
  
  The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change
  
  
  
  
  
  Lenin: A Political Life  
  
  
  Volume One: The Strengths of Contradiction  
  
  
  Volume Two: Worlds in Collision  
  
  
  Volume Three: The Iron Ring
  
  
  
  
  
  The Russian Revolution, 1900–1927
  
  
  
  
  
  A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
  
  
  
  
  
  Lenin: A Biography
  
  
  
  
  
  Russia: Experiment with a People
  
  
  
  
  
  Comrades: Communism: A World History (publishing 2007)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  