LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. By Victor Sebestyen. Pantheon. 592 pages. $35. "Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" is one ...

Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with a specialism in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. Her books include Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs and No Place for Ladies: The ...

LENIN: THE MAN, THE DICTATOR, AND THE MASTER OF TERROR By Victor Sebestyen Pantheon Books, $25, 569 pages Let not October pass by without proper notice of the 100th anniversary of one of the greater ...

The fat political biography has an antipodal relationship with the fat literary biography: even if it's dull, it's useful. (Literary and political autobiography are also, for the most part, opposites: ...

To signal the storming of the Russian imperial palace, the revolutionary guards were supposed to raise a red lantern over the fortress they had occupied in Petrograd, the city now known as St.

WITH THE hindsight of a century, it seems to be the private lives and personalities – as distinct from the ideas – of historical figures that attract most attention. So the subject of this biography ...

A full century since seizing the reigns of the Russian state from the grip of a weak cabinet and an ousted royal dynasty, Vladimir Lenin can still draw a crowd in Russia's capital, Moscow. But the ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet ...