Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror /
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 i...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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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.