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Merridale, Catherine Sebestyen, Victor Service, Robert Volkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich.Sebestyen, Victor
Summary: "Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENIN, VLADIMIR ILYICH SEBSummary: Examines Trotsky, the revolutionary, venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leon Trotsky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TROService, Robert
Summary: Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TROTSKY, LEON SERMerridale, Catherine
Summary: A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as the First World War stretched on and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shock waves across Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 MERVolkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich.
Summary: At last, based on full access to Soviet and Western archives, as well as interviews with surviving members of the Trotsky family and others, Dmitri Volkogonov offers a breakthrough reinterpretation. No source is ignored: Volkogonov even interviewed a member of Stalin's NKVD hit squad that assassinated Trotsky. Through his access to internal memos sent between Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Free Press 1996