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While never ignoring the politics, Sebestyen focuses on the man who loved
nature as much as he loved making revolution, and how his closest relationships
were with women. He built a state based on terror, but the cold, one-dimensional
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figure of Lenin the political fanatic is a partial truth. He was a highly emotional
man given to furious rages and deep passions. Drawing on extensive new
material and sources that have only recently become available, Sebestyen
shows how Vladimir llyich Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary
state - and sheds new light on Lenin's inner life, his relationship with his wife,
and his long love affair with Inessa Armand, the most romantic and beguiling
of Bolsheviks. These two women were as significant as the men - Stalin or
Trotsky - who created the world's first Communist state with him.