Lenin the Dictator

Victor Sebestyen

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Little Brown
31 July 2018

Biography: historical, political & military; History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Marxism & Communism

Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.

Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world.

Lenin believed that the 'the political is the personal', and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen focuses on Lenin the man - a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of his menage a trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of legend.

Told through the prism of Lenin's key relationships, Sebestyen's lively biography casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history.

By: Victor Sebestyen
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781474601054
ISBN 10: 1474601057
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 31 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victor Sebestyen is the acclaimed author of TWELVE DAYS, REVOLUTION 1989 and 1946. He was born in Budapest, and was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he has worked for numerous British newspapers, including the EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL and THE TIMES. He reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. He covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. At the EVENING STANDARD he was foreign editor, media editor and chief leader writer. He is an associate editor of NEWSWEEK.

Reviews for Lenin the Dictator

An excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader Can first-rate history read like a thriller? With Lenin the Dictator the journalist Victor Sebestyen has pulled off this rarest of feats - NEW YORK TIMES