18 best-selling nonfiction books like Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen

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Lenin the Dictator

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.25

Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition

'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e…

"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

"If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die..."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democracies. He offered simple solutions to complex problems. He lied unashamedly."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

By: Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more

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  • russia
  • biography
  • history
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"

-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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2. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Trotsky: Downfall Of A Revolutionary

By: Bertrand M. Patenaude

3.77

Format: None pages,

In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary,Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells th… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Young Stalin

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Young Stalintells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, of doubtful p… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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5. Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

By: Don Hagen , Volker Ullrich

4.43

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A major new biography-an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personifica… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would ha…"

-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

"Hitler's unusually improvisational and personal style of leadership, which created constant responsibility conflicts and an anarchic tangle of offices and portfolios, was anything but an expression o…"

-Don Hagen, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939

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6. Nicholas and Alexandra

By: Robert K. Massie

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

The story of the love that ended an empire. In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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7. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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9. Frank: The Voice

By: James Kaplan

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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10. Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy

By: Viktor Suvorov

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

Viktor Suvorov takes us inside the Aquarium, Moscow headquarters of the GRU, the super-secret Russi… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

By: James Burnham

4.31

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"

-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"

-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"

-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

12. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)

By: Richard J. Evans

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more

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13. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By: Robert K. Massie

3.80

Format: 654 pages, Paperback

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a f… read more

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14. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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15. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

By: Anthony Everitt

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more

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16. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

By: Frank Dikötter

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more

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17. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)

By: Richard J. Evans

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more

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18. Trotsky: A Biography

By: Robert Service

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an ea… read more

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19. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By: Eric Hoffer

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more

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20. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

By: Nora Seligman Favorov , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin… read more

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21. Mao: The Unknown Story

By: Jung Chang , Jon Halliday

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on… read more

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22. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more

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23. Men, Machines, and Modern Times

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwe… read more

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24. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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25. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
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26. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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27. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Lenin the Dictator

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.25

Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition

'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e… read more

Similar categories in Victor Sebestyen's Lenin the Dictator book and Victor Sebestyen's Lenin the Dictator

  • russia
  • biography
  • history
  • soviet union
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

"If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die..."

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democra…"

-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

Cover of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin

29. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941

By: Stephen Kotkin

4.45

Format: 1184 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectiv… read more

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  • russia
  • biography
  • history
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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30. Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45

By: Volker Ullrich

4.60

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated their autho… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

By: Edward Williams

4.37

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more

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"Do you want to live, Sander?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Scopolamine never asks for permission"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was it even my own mind making the decisions?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was he connected to the hitman? I didn't worry about it"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

5 Best audiobook books like Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen

Transform Your Habits

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

James Burnham

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Russia

Orlando Figes

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

4.11

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24 Best history books like Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich

Transform Your Habits

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)

Ian W. Toll

4.61

Transform Your Habits

After Hitler: The Last Days of World War Two in Europe

Michael Jones

3.95

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