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The Resource Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror, Victor Sebestyen

Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror, Victor Sebestyen

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Summary
"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."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First United States edition.
Extent
xix, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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
Isbn
9781101871638
Instance
Label
Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
Title
Lenin
Title remainder
the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
Statement of responsibility
Victor Sebestyen
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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."--
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Provided by publisher
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1956-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Sebestyen, Victor
Dewey number
  • 947.0841092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
DK254.L4
LC item number
S34 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
  • Revolutionaries
  • Dictators
  • State-sponsored terrorism
  • Soviet Union
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • HISTORY
  • Dictators
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Political and social views
  • Politics and government
  • Psychology
  • Relations with women
  • Revolutionaries
  • State-sponsored terrorism
  • Soviet Union
Label
Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror, Victor Sebestyen
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-547) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn973084532
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First United States edition.
Extent
xix, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781101871638
Lccn
2017008076
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)973084532
Label
Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror, Victor Sebestyen
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-547) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn973084532
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First United States edition.
Extent
xix, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781101871638
Lccn
2017008076
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)973084532

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