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Historical person
1870–1924
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary theorist and leader of the Bolshevik Party. He returned from exile in 1917, helped direct the October Revolution and headed the new Soviet government during civil war, economic collapse and the Red Terror.
His policies and political organisation laid foundations for the Soviet state, although illness removed him from active power before his death in 1924. Vladimir Lenin was born in Ulyanovsk and died in Bolshiye Gorki.
Hourly History’s Russian Revolution follows Lenin’s return from exile, the July crisis and the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917. Soviet Union then places his consolidation of the new regime at the beginning of the state later transformed under Stalin. Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Young Stalin shows the younger Georgian revolutionary building his relationship with Lenin inside the Bolshevik underground before 1917. Montefiore’s novel Sashenka mixes fictional family history with appearances by Lenin, Stalin and other revolutionary leaders as private lives are pulled into the new political order. Adam Zamoyski’s Warsaw 1920 presents Lenin as a Soviet leader who believed victory over Poland could carry revolution westward towards Germany, giving the Polish counter-offensive consequences far beyond Warsaw itself.
Series
The Codebreakers trilogy centres on Britain’s wartime intelligence services during the later years of the First World War. Cryptographers, field agents, aviators, photographers and medical workers confront intercepted messages, enemy deception and personal loss while their private relationships become entangled with national security.
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The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…
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The Century Trilogy follows five interconnected families from Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States from the years before the First World War to the collapse of Communist rule in Europe. Across three generations, miners, aristocrats, diplomats, political organisers, soldiers and journalists experience public events through marriages, rivalries…
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Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Moscow Trilogy is a loosely connected sequence of historical novels set across revolutionary and Stalinist Russia. Sashenka begins in St Petersburg in 1916 and follows its heroine through revolution and the terror of the 1930s; Red Sky at Noon moves to the Eastern Front in…
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The Kirov Trilogy follows three generations connected with the fictional Kirov family against the splendour and violence of Imperial Russia. Beginning in 1803, the sequence moves from the Napoleonic invasion through the Crimean War to the First World War and the Russian Revolution, linking English heroines with a…
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Standalone books
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
