Sebestyen's "Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror"
Also Could Have Been Subtitled "The Lover, the Mama's Boy, and the Cat Person"
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A short review today of a fairly weighty book about an even weightier topic: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. And is appropriate for someone whose mummified corpse has been on public display for almost 99 years, I’ll also review just a few of the ways—big and small, ironically and dead-seriously— he remains in our post-1991 consciousness.
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