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In seven years, Lenin changed the course of history

Between his return from exile and his death, Lenin launched – and perverted – the revolution that shapes world politics today

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

The Russian Revolution Victor Sebestyen

Head of Zeus, pp.240, 27.99

The upheavals convulsing the Russian empire in 1917, Victor Sebestyen argues convincingly, were the seminal happenings of the past century. From them directly stemmed the second world war, the Cold War, the collapse of European imperialism and the dangerous world we inhabit today. There are many weighty modern accounts of these epochal events by historians such as Richard Pipes, Robert Service and Orlando Figes, and it is these that Sebestyen chiefly relies on in this brisk, well-informed and chilling account.

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