num_pages: 496
description: David Shub was born in Russia in 1887. He became involved in politics and joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903.In 1904 he left Russia and lived in London, Paris and Geneva where he met and worked with George Plekhanov, Pavel Axelrod, Leon Trotsky, Vera Zasulich, Jules Martov, Vladimir Lenin, Anatoli Lunacharsky, and Victor Chernov. He returned to Russia to participate in the 1905 Revolution. In 1906 he was arrested for revolutionary activity and sentenced to internal exile in Siberia. Shub escaped in 1908 and made his way to the United States. He kept in close contact with the leaders of both the February Revolution and the October Revolution. In 1930 Shub published an article on Joseph Stalin in the New York Times. Over the next twenty years he wrote extensively about the Russian Revolution including his acclaimed biography of Vladimir Lenin that was published in 1948.
language: English
title: Lenin: A Biography
titlecomplete: Lenin: A Biography
characters: Vladimir Lenin
genres: History, Economics, Russia, Politics, World History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Penguin Group