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Article: Books: The Alf Garnett of revolution A new analysis of Lenin is urgently needed in the dark era of Vladimir Putin, urges George Lucas; Lenin: A Biography By Robert Service MACMILLAN pounds 25
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2000
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Lenin's Gulag, expanded by Stalin, was one of the foulest
inventions of 20th century mass-production. But the prison camps live
on today. They owe their durability in no small part to the ambitious
stipulations of their spiritual creator. Lenin still has much for
which he should answer in the new Russia, most of all in damage
wrought to prospects of achieving decently functioning government
even 80 years after his death. While making energetic use of newly
liberated archives, Robert Service's book misses a substantial
opportunity to set his subject in post-Soviet perspective, a project
much needed given current moves back to what will be for older
Russians more familiar themes of ...
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