{"product_id":"lenin-the-dictator","title":"Lenin the Dictator","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLenin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victor Sebestyen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43334944522409,"sku":"9781474600453","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781474600453.jpg?v=1698364639","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/lenin-the-dictator","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}