- Politics and government, Revolutionaries, Heads of state, Biography
**Lenin: A Biography** is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Vladimir Lenin written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian History at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2000 and later republished in other languages. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin:_A_Biography))
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Robert Service
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Pan Booksc2002., Indiana University Press, Verlag C. H. Beck
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780674008281
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