Lenin

More than a hundred years after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Lenin continues to inspire great fascination, both inside and outside Russia, and has gone down in history as a cold and authoritarian politician who created a new model of State that almost half of the world would imitate. of the countries of the world. In this revealing biography, journalist Victor Sebestyen draws on unpublished primary sources to recreate Lenin's life, his revolutionary activity, and his time at the head of the Soviet Union. But Sebestyen goes further and reveals the person behind the Bolshevik leader, a man who loved the revolution, but also nature, who was prone to fits of anger and who maintained a long ménage à trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and the seductive comrade Inessa Armand. Lenin offers a vivid human portrait of the Russian Revolution, one of the most crucial events in modern history, through the life of its most prominent figure.