LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. By Victor Sebestyen. Pantheon. 592 pages. $35. "Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" is one ...
The fat political biography has an antipodal relationship with the fat literary biography: even if it's dull, it's useful. (Literary and political autobiography are also, for the most part, opposites: ...
Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with a specialism in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. Her books include Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs and No Place for Ladies: The ...
Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1944-07-01/vladimir-i-lenin-political-biographyhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule ...