LENIN THE DICTATOR: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT

Book ID/图书代码： 10010015B85788

English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Lenin believed that the ’the political is the personal’, and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen’s focus will be on Lenin the man - a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of his ménage a trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of legend.

Told through the prism of Lenin’s key relationships, Sebestyen’s lively biography casts a new light the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 维克多•塞巴斯蒂的这部私人传记是近二十年来关于二十世纪最重要人物之一的第一部重要英语作品。在俄罗斯，直到今天，列宁依然受到极大的追捧。作为创造了历史，创造了后来被世界将近一半的国家模仿的新政府形式，他在每一个地方一直被敬仰。

列宁认为，“政治是个人的”，在不忽视他的政治生涯的同时，塞巴斯蒂的重点将是列宁这个人——一个几乎和热爱革命一样热爱自然的人，一个最亲密的关系和友谊是和女人的的人。长期被掩盖的，关于他和他的妻子娜杰日达•克鲁普斯卡娅，和他的情妇和同志伊涅萨•阿尔芒的故事，展示了一个不同于传说中只有冷静的人物。

通过列宁的重要关系网讲述，塞巴斯蒂的生动传记重新审视了现代史上的伟大转折点俄国革命。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：An excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR)

Richly readable ... enthralling but appalling (Francis Wheen MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Victor Sebestyen brings the man’s complexities to life in Lenin the Dictator, balancing personality with politics in succinct and readable prose ... Sebestyen describes particularly keenly how this ruthless, domineering, often vicious man depended on three women to sustain him (David Reynolds NEW STATESMAN)

Excellent new biography (Saul David EVENING STANDARD)

The attention to detail is flawless (Alex Larman THE OBSERVER)

The story of the Bolshevik revolution is fascinating in several ways, and Sebestyen does a good job of telling it ... entertaining (Tibor Fischer STANDPOINT)

In this new biography, Victor Sebestyen gives a vivid and rounded picture of Lenin the man ... Sebestyen brings to the task a gift for narrative and for describing his rich cast of characters (Margaret MacMillan THE OLDIE)

About the Author/作者介绍： 维克多•塞巴斯蒂是著名作家，是《十二天》（W&N出版公司，2006），《革命1989》（W&N出版公司，2009）和《革命1946》（麦克米兰出版公司，2014）的作者。他出生在布达佩斯。当他的家庭作为难民离开匈牙利时他还是个孩子。作为一名新闻记者，他曾为许多英国报纸工作，包括晚间标准、每日邮报和泰晤士报。当1989年柏林墙倒塌和共产主义崩溃时他从东欧国家发回了很多报告。他报道了前南斯拉夫战争和苏联解体。在“晚间标准”，他是外国编辑，媒体编辑和首席领导。他是新闻周刊的副主编。

Victor Sebestyen is the acclaimed author of TWELVE DAYS (W&N, 2006), REVOLUTION 1989 (W&N, 2009) and 1946 (Macmillan, 2014). He was born in Budapest. He was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he has worked for numerous British newspapers, including the EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL and THE TIMES. He reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. He covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. At the EVENING STANDARD he was foreign editor, media editor and chief leader writer. He is an associate editor of NEWSWEEK.

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