Victor Sebestyen: Lenin the Dictator [2017] hardback Condition:New from TIME journalist and author

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Victor Sebestyen: Lenin the Dictator [2017] hardback Condition:New from TIME journalist and authorShortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world.