Wer war Lenin wirklich? Eine Biogra...

Wer war Lenin wirklich? Eine Biografie [Lenin: A Biography]. Robert Service. London: Macmillan / Munich: C H Beck, 2000 640 pp [pound]2500; DM68

"Service relies onward newly available archival sources and lately published memoirs to draw a more intimate portrait of the man.... It sometimes lacks convincing historical explanation." Service tries to reconcile his vision of Lenin as an ideological zealot with the picture of a volatile man tending to "sadistic self-indulgence."

Laura Engelsten