Rezensionen / Stimmen
An excellent, original and compelling portrait of Lenin as man and leader -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of <i>STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR</i> 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 * Victor Sebestyen does an impressive job of telling Lenin's life story ... it is a highly readable overview -- Evan Mawdsley * BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE * In his engagingly written biography the author ... captures all the drama of Lenin's leadership against
a back ground of imperial collapse, the ravages of war and the building of a dictatorship ... the Bolshevik leader emerges from these pages as a man unencumbered by critical self-awareness, by doubts or by any moral conflict over the extraordinary costs inflicted on others by the pursuit of his revolutionary goals -- Daniel Beer * THE GUARDIAN *
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
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978-1-4746-0850-3 (9781474608503)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
