Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
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Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
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xix, 569 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure, revered and reviled for his rigid political ideals. He continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and created the first Communist state, a model that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world. Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the first 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 a portrait of Lenin the man. Lenin was someone who loved nature, hunting, fishing and could identify hundreds of species of plants, a despotic ruler whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of the complex love triangle Lenin had with his wife, and his mistress and comrade, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of the legend. Sebestyen also reveals Lenin as a ruthless and single-minded despot and a 'product of his time and place: a violent, tyrannical and corrupt Russia.' He seized power in a coup, promised a revolution, a socialist utopia for the people, offered simple solutions to complex issues and constantly lied; in fact, what he created was more 'a mirror image of the Romanov autocracy.' He authorized the deaths of thousands of people, and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for the greater ideal. One of his old comrades who had once admired him said he 'desired the good... but created evil.' And that would include his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to new heights"--
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 assassin's 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.
Publication Info:
New York : Pantheon, 2017.
Subject:
Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union -- Biography. |
Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography. |
State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History. |
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Influence. |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Political and social views. |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Relations with women. |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Psychology. |
Ленин, Владимир Ильич, 1870-1924 |
Illiin, We., 1870-1924 |
Ilʹin, Vladimīr, 1870-1924 |
I-li-chʻi, 1870-1924 |
Lenine, Wladimir Ilitch Oulianof, 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Nicolai, 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Nikolaj, 1870-1924 |
Lenin, V. I. (Vladimir Ilʹich), 1870-1924 |
Ленин, В. И. (Владимир Ильич), 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Vi. Ai., 1870-1924 |
Ulʹi͡anov, V. (Vladimir), 1870-1924 |
Ульянов, В. (Владимир), 1870-1924 |
Ulʹi͡anov, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 |
Ульянов, Владимир Ильич, 1870-1924 |
Lenjin, V. I., 1870-1924 |
Lenine, N., 1870-1924 |
Lenin, W. I. (Wladimir Ilitsch), 1870-1924 |
Ulianov, V. I., 1870-1924 |
Lenin, N., 1870-1924 |
L̦en̦ins, V. A. (Vladimirs Il̦jičs), 1870-1924 |
Liening, 1870-1924 |
Lieh-ning, 1870-1924 |
列寧, 1870-1924 |
Lenin, 1870-1924 |
Lénine, Vladimir, 1870-1924 |
Oulianov, Vladimir, 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Vlagyimir Iljics, 1870-1924 |
Lenjin, Vladimir Iljič, 1870-1924 |
Uljanov, Vladimir Iljič, 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Niḳolay, 1870-1924 |
Līnīn, 1870-1924 |
Ulyanoṿ, Ṿ., 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Ṿ., 1870-1924 |
Lenin, U. I. (Uladzimir Ilʹich), 1870-1924 |
Lenin, Uladzimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 |
Rēnin, Urajimīru, 1870-1924 |
Rēnin, Urajimīru Iriichi, 1870-1924 |
Rēnin, Urajimīru Iritchi, 1870-1924 |
Linīn, Vilādīmīr Īlīch, 1870-1924 |
לאנין, ולאדימיר, 1870-1924 |
לנין, וולדימיר איליץ, 1870־1924 |
לנין, וו. אי, 1870-1924 |
לענין, וו.אי, 1870-1924 |
לענין, ניקאלאי, 1870-1924 |
לענין, נ., 1870־1924 |
לענין, װלאדימיר איליטש, 1870-1924 |
לענינ, וולאדימיר איליטש, 1870-1924 |
Λενιν, Β. Ι, 1870-1924 |
レーニンウラジーミル, 1870-1924 |
ウラジーミル・レーニン, 1870-1924 |
レーニンウラジーミルイリイチ, 1870-1924 |
ウラジーミル・イリイチ・レーニン, 1870-1924 |
レーニンウラジミールイリッチ, 1870-1924 |
ウラジミール・イリッチ ・レーニン, 1870-1924 |
لينين, 1870-1924 |
لنين، ولاديمير ايليچ, 1870-1924 |
Tyrants |
Government violence |
Governmental violence |
State-sponsored violence |
State terrorism |
Violence, Governmental |
Violence, State-sponsored |
SAILS ISBN:
9781101871638