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Victor Sebestyen's biography treats Vladimir Ilyich Lenin both as a political figure and as a man. Raised in comfort, and fond of chess, hunting, fishing and the English classics, Lenin turned radical after his brother was executed in 1887. Sebestyen follows him through long exile in Europe to his return to Petrograd in 1917, his seizure of power in a coup and the state he ran. Sebestyen finds that throughout his life Lenin's closest bonds were with women: his mother, his sisters, his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya and his married mistress Inessa Armand. The book also shows Lenin building a system that justified terror against opponents, which Stalin later carried further. It came out in 2017.
Marc Andreessen called it a thorough biography of Vladimir Lenin and a key record of his life.
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A comprehensive biography and a key chronicle of Vladimir Lenin
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