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Lenin: A Biography

September 26, 2013

Robert Service's Lenin is another effort at presenting the life and figure of the world's greatest revolutionary. Lenin's colossus has been written about before, both by sympathizers and detractors, who arrived at two totally different - and extreme - conclusions. This biography aims to present Lenin without making him a saint or a demon - which is an admirable and immensely difficult effort, if not downright impossible: Service himself isn't able to entirely extricate his own personal views on Lenin from the book, and has been both praised by the mainstream press and critiqued by left-leaning and Marxist organizations.

Until recently biographers of Lenin suffered from severe limitations - much of the necessary information was classified and kept in the secret archives of the USSR. Soviet historians have produced a picture of Lenin as according to state ideology: Lenin was a selfless man, who restlessly worked for the Cause, the Great October Socialist Revolution, and the establishment of the people's utopia; In the Soviet Union Lenin has

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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

Lenin: The Man, The Dictator, and the Master of Terror
by Victor Sebestyen
592 pages
Pantheon
Release Date: November 7, 2017

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Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 which saw the rise of communism in Russia comes Victor Sebestyen’s revealing biography of Vladimir Lenin. Well-regarded by critics, this book draws on new sources including letters and diaries from Lenin and his friends to tease out the ruthless leader’s personality nuances and character complexity.

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From the publisher:

“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. S

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Lenin and his biographers

VLADIMIR ILYICH Lenin remains an object of interest to people around the world even today. Many people have no clear conception, or no conception at all, of who this man was, but there are significant numbers who do. For some he remains an object of fear and hate, for others of passionate hope, for some of disappointment—with others defined by yet other categories. “Tell me what you think of Lenin,” writes historian Christopher Read, “and I will tell you who you are.” One of the most challenging and idiosyncratic political theorists of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt, commented in her 1963 reflection On Revolution that “it is perhaps noteworthy that Lenin, unlike Hitler and Stalin, has not yet found his definitive biographer, although he was not merely a ‘better’ but an incomparably simpler man; it may be because his role in twentieth-century history is so much more equivocal and difficult to understand.”¹

The full-scale biographies emerging in the last half of the twentieth century were all problematica Those produced in the Soviet Union pres