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LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen {J8}
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9781101871638
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101871636
ISBN-13
9781101871638
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234274240
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lenin : the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Terrorism, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Revolutionary, History & Theory, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
31.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-008076
Reviews
"[An] excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader." -Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs "A vivid and rounded picture of Lenin the man. Serious and deeply reserved, the great revolutionary had few friends but loved at least two women deeply, and at the same time.Lenin's life has been told before, but Sebestyen brings to the task a gift for narrative and for describing his rich cast of characters." --Margaret MacMillan, The Oldie (UK) "An entertaining read...Sebestyen writes in a lively journalistic style and has an eye for memorable anecdotes and quotations...He brings Lenin the man to life and shows persuasively how 'he was driven by emotion as much as by ideology.'" --Orlando Figes, The Sunday Times (UK) "Richly readable... Sebestyen does full justice to the astonishing, thriller-like tale of [Lenin's] return to Russia to organize the October uprising...Lenin saw enemies everywhere. Blaming peasant farmers for the shortage of food, he ordered provincial officials to round them up and hang them. Even Josef Stalin was rebuked for not being 'merciless' enough...An enthralling but appalling story." -- The Mail on Sunday (UK) "Sebestyen brings Lenin's complexities to life, balancing personality with politics in succinct and readable prose, [and] describes particularly keenly how this ruthless, domineering, often vicious man depended on women to sustain him. " --David Reynolds, The New Statesman (UK) "Sebestyen, whose family fled Hungary as refugees when he was a child, revives a style of history familiar to the Cold War, in which leading Bolsheviks appear as black sheep in an unhappy eastern bloc family history. Like the Polish-born historian Richard Pipes, his writing is full of caustic asides and asterisks and daggers leading down wormholes of communist lore. His well-sourced narrative feels as if it was honed around kitchen tables for decades before he sat down to write it." --Roland Elliott Brown, The Spectator (UK), "[An] excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader." -Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs "A vivid and rounded picture of Lenin the man. Serious and deeply reserved, the great revolutionary had few friends but loved at least two women deeply, and at the same time.Lenin's life has been told before, but Sebestyen brings to the task a gift for narrative and for describing his rich cast of characters." --Margaret MacMillan, The Oldie (UK) "An entertaining read...Sebestyen writes in a lively journalistic style and has an eye for memorable anecdotes and quotations...He brings Lenin the man to life and shows persuasively how 'he was driven by emotion as much as by ideology.'" --Orlando Figes, The Sunday Times (UK) "Richly readable... Sebestyen does full justice to the astonishing, thriller-like tale of [Lenin's] return to Russia to organize the October uprising...Lenin saw enemies everywhere. Blaming peasant farmers for the shortage of food, he ordered provincial officials to round them up and hang them. Even Josef Stalin was rebuked for not being 'merciless' enough...An enthralling but appalling story." -- The Mail on Sunday (UK) "Sebestyen brings Lenin's complexities to life, balancing personality with politics in succinct and readable prose, [and] describes particularly keenly how this ruthless, domineering, often vicious man depended on women to sustain him. " --David Reynolds, The New Statesman (UK) "Sebestyen, whose family fled Hungary as refugees when he was a child, revives a style of history familiar to the Cold War, in which leading Bolsheviks appear as black sheep in an unhappy eastern bloc family history. Like the Polish-born historian Richard Pipes, his writing is full of caustic asides and asterisks and daggers leading down wormholes of communist lore. His well-sourced narrative feels as if it was honed around kitchen tables for decades before he sat down to write it." --Roland Elliott Brown, The Spectator (UK), "An illuminating new biography of the cold, calculating ruler on whom the subsequent Soviet state modeled itself...Sebestyen ably captures the man, "the kind of demagogue familiar to us in Western democracies." A compelling, clear-eyed portrait of a dictator whose politics have unfortunate relevance for today." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Insightful... A compelling portrait of an epoch-making figure...Readers explore the complexities of [Lenin's] personality: sophisticated intellectual and shameless demagogue, cerebral logician and emotional rageaholic, sensitive lover of music and callous murderer. But no complexities will fascinate readers more than those characterizing Lenin's tangled relationships with the women who influenced him. Taking readers deep into a marriage that previous biographers have dismissed as merely functional, Sebestyen illuminates moments of real tenderness--and of painful tension--as Lenin succumbs to the charms of a beautiful migr, whom he makes his mistress without abandoning his wife." --Booklist (starred review) "[An] excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs "A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin, and just at the right time: As Bolshevik ideas and tactics return to world politics, Victor Sebestyen focuses our attention on man who invented them." --Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine "A vivid and rounded picture of Lenin the man. Serious and deeply reserved, the great revolutionary had few friends but loved at least two women deeply, and at the same time.Lenin's life has been told before, but Sebestyen brings to the task a gift for narrative and for describing his rich cast of characters." --Margaret MacMillan, The Oldie (UK) "An entertaining read...Sebestyen writes in a lively journalistic style and has an eye for memorable anecdotes and quotations...He brings Lenin the man to life and shows persuasively how 'he was driven by emotion as much as by ideology.'" --Orlando Figes, The Sunday Times (UK) "Richly readable... Sebestyen does full justice to the astonishing, thriller-like tale of [Lenin's] return to Russia to organize the October uprising...Lenin saw enemies everywhere. Blaming peasant farmers for the shortage of food, he ordered provincial officials to round them up and hang them. Even Josef Stalin was rebuked for not being 'merciless' enough...An enthralling but appalling story." --The Mail on Sunday (UK) "Sebestyen brings Lenin's complexities to life, balancing personality with politics in succinct and readable prose, [and] describes particularly keenly how this ruthless, domineering, often vicious man depended on women to sustain him. " --David Reynolds, The New Statesman (UK) "Sebestyen, whose family fled Hungary as refugees when he was a child, revives a style of history familiar to the Cold War, in which leading Bolsheviks appear as black sheep in an unhappy eastern bloc family history. Like the Polish-born historian Richard Pipes, his writing is full of caustic asides and asterisks and daggers leading down wormholes of communist lore. His well-sourced narrative feels as if it was honed around kitchen tables for decades before he sat down to write it." --Roland Elliott Brown, The Spectator (UK), "[An] excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs "A vivid and rounded picture of Lenin the man. Serious and deeply reserved, the great revolutionary had few friends but loved at least two women deeply, and at the same time.Lenin's life has been told before, but Sebestyen brings to the task a gift for narrative and for describing his rich cast of characters." --Margaret MacMillan, The Oldie (UK) "An entertaining read...Sebestyen writes in a lively journalistic style and has an eye for memorable anecdotes and quotations...He brings Lenin the man to life and shows persuasively how 'he was driven by emotion as much as by ideology.'" --Orlando Figes, The Sunday Times (UK) "Richly readable... Sebestyen does full justice to the astonishing, thriller-like tale of [Lenin's] return to Russia to organize the October uprising...Lenin saw enemies everywhere. Blaming peasant farmers for the shortage of food, he ordered provincial officials to round them up and hang them. Even Josef Stalin was rebuked for not being 'merciless' enough...An enthralling but appalling story." --The Mail on Sunday (UK) "Sebestyen brings Lenin's complexities to life, balancing personality with politics in succinct and readable prose, [and] describes particularly keenly how this ruthless, domineering, often vicious man depended on women to sustain him. " --David Reynolds, The New Statesman (UK) "Sebestyen, whose family fled Hungary as refugees when he was a child, revives a style of history familiar to the Cold War, in which leading Bolsheviks appear as black sheep in an unhappy eastern bloc family history. Like the Polish-born historian Richard Pipes, his writing is full of caustic asides and asterisks and daggers leading down wormholes of communist lore. His well-sourced narrative feels as if it was honed around kitchen tables for decades before he sat down to write it." --Roland Elliott Brown, The Spectator (UK), "[An] excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader." -Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs "A vivid and rounded picture of Lenin the man. Serious and deeply reserved, the great revolutionary had few friends but loved at least two women deeply, and at the same time.Lenin's life has been told before, but Sebestyen brings to the task a gift for narrative and for describing his rich cast of characters." --Margaret MacMillan, The Oldie (UK) "An entertaining read...Sebestyen writes in a lively journalistic style and has an eye for memorable anecdotes and quotations...He brings Lenin the man to life and shows persuasively how 'he was driven by emotion as much as by ideology.'" --Orlando Figes, The Sunday Times (UK) "Richly readable... Sebestyen does full justice to the astonishing, thriller-like tale of Lenin's return to Russia to organize the October uprising...an enthralling but appalling story. " -- The Mail on Sunday (UK)
Table Of Content
Maps xi-xvii List of Illustrations xix Introduction 1 Prologue: The Coup d'État 7 1 A Nest of Gentlefolk 25 2 A Childhood Idyll 33 3 The Hanged Man 42 4 The Police State 49 5 A Revolutionary Education 58 6 Vladimir Ilyich - Attorney at Law 68 7 Nadya - A Marxist Courtship 76 8 Language, Truth and Logic 82 9 Foreign Parts 86 10 Prison and Siberia 92 11 Lenin Is Born 107 12 Underground Lives 121 13 England, Their England 127 14 What Is to Be Done? 138 15 The Great Schism - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks 145 16 Peaks and Troughs 154 17 An Autocracy Without an Autocrat 159 18 Back Home 171 19 'Expropriate the Expropriators' 179 20 Geneva - 'An Awful Hole' 192 21 Inessa - Lenin in Love 202 22 Betrayals 215 23 A Love Triangle - Two into Three Will Go 224 24 Catastrophe - The World at War 231 25 In the Wilderness 240 26 The Last Exile 253 27 Revolution - Part One 258 28 The Sealed Train 271 29 To the Finland Station 285 30 The Interregnum 291 31 'Peace, Land and Bread' 301 32 The Spoils of War 310 33 A Desperate Gamble 316 34 The July Days 320 35 On the Run 329 36 Revolution - Part Two 339 37 Power - At Last 346 38 The Man in Charge 358 39 The Sword and Shield 367 40 War and Peace 372 41 The One-Party State 380 42 The Battle for Grain 392 43 Regicide 401 44 The Assassins' Bullets 410 45 The Simple Life 421 46 Reds and Whites 436 47 Funeral in Moscow 451 48 The 'Internationale' 457 49 Rebels at Sea and on Land 464 50 Intimations of Mortality 476 51 Revolution - Again 483 52 The Last Battle 488 53 'An Explosion of Noise' 500 54 Lenin Lives 503 Principal Characters 511 Notes 519 Select Bibliography 538 Acknowledgements 548 Index 551
Synopsis
Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin "desired the good . . . but created evil." This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs)
LC Classification Number
DK254.L4S34 2017
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