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  title info:
    title: Lenin
    sub title: the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
  name:
    name part: Sebestyen, Victor
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First United States edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 us 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 who 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.
  table of contents: Prologue: The coup d'état -- A nest of gentlefolk -- A childhood idyll -- The hanged man -- The police state -- A revolutionary education -- Vladimir Ilyich--attorney at law -- Nadya--a Marxist courtship -- Language, truth and logic -- Foreign parts -- Prison and Siberia -- Lenin is born -- Underground lives -- England, their England -- What is to be done? -- The great schism--Bolsheviks and Mensheviks -- Peaks and troughs -- An autocracy without an autocrat -- Back home -- "Expropriate the expropriators" -- Geneva--"an awful hole" -- Inessa--Lenin in love -- Betrayals -- A love triangle--two into three will go -- Catastrophe--the world at war -- In the wilderness -- The last exile -- Revolution--part one -- The sealed train -- To the Finland station -- The interregnum -- "Peace, land and bread" -- The spoils of war -- A desperate gamble -- The July days -- On the run -- Revolution--part two -- Power--at last -- The man in charge -- The sword and shield -- War and peace -- The one-party state -- The battle for grain -- Regicide -- The assassins' bullets -- The simple life -- Reds and whites -- Funeral in Moscow -- The "Internationale" -- Rebels at sea and on land -- Intimations of mortality -- Revolution--again -- The last battle -- "An explosion of noise" -- Lenin lives.
  note: Victor Sebestyen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Relations with women
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Revolutionaries
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Dictators
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: State-sponsored terrorism
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1917-1936
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Historical
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Historical
  classification: DK254.L4 S34 2017
  classification: 947.0841092 B
  identifier: 9781101871638
  identifier: 1101871636
  identifier: 9781101871645
  identifier: 9781101974308
  identifier: 1101974303
  identifier: 2017008076
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170303
    record change date: 20190122151406.0
    record identifier: in00004032817