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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.
Lenin is the central figure of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin in Zurich, a novel that examines his exile, ideas and preparations before the Russian Revolution. He also appears in numerous fictional accounts of 1917 and the civil war, where portrayals range from disciplined strategist to authoritarian revolutionary.
Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants is set in 1911. The lives of five families begin to intersect across Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States. Roseanna M. White’s A Portrait of Loyalty (the Codebreakers) places Vladimir Lenin within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. Other novels featuring Vladimir Lenin include Edward Rutherfurd’s Russka.
In non-fiction, Vladimir Lenin is discussed in Giles Milton’s Russian Roulette. Giles Milton’s Russian Roulette approaches the subject through crime, espionage and covert power, empire, conquest and resistance, and family, marriage and personal loyalty.
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 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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Standalone books
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
