Lenin

More than a hundred years after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Lenin continues to inspire great fascination, both inside and outside of Russia, and he has gone down in history as a cold and authoritarian politician who created a new model of state that almost half would imitate. from the countries of the world. In this revealing biography, journalist Victor Sebestyen draws on unpublished primary sources to recreate Lenin's life and revolutionary activity, and then at the helm of the Soviet Union. But Sebestyen goes further and reveals the person behind the revolutionary, a man who loved the revolution, but also nature, who was prone to attacks of anger and who had a long menage à trois with his wife Nadezhda Krúpskaya and the seductress. Bolshevik 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 his most prominent figure.