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092    BIO|bLENIN 
100 1  Sebestyen, Victor,|d1956-|eauthor. 
245 10 Lenin :|bthe man, the dictator, and the master of terror /
       |cVictor Sebestyen. 
250    First United States edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPantheon Books,|c2017. 
300    xix, 569 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-547) and 
       index. 
520 2  "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,|d1870-1924|xInfluence. 
600 10 Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,|d1870-1924|xPolitical and social 
       views. 
600 10 Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,|d1870-1924|xRelations with women. 
600 10 Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,|d1870-1924|xPsychology. 
650  0 Revolutionaries|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Dictators|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 State-sponsored terrorism|zSoviet Union|xHistory
       |vBiography. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xPolitics and government|y1917-1936
       |vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft