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Victor Sébastien's Analysis

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As for Lenin’s ideology one source that has provided significant information for my paper is author Victor Sébastien’s unique look at Lenin through letters documents and interviews. Lenin's personal letters and those of many leading political figure were made available to view, Sebestyen gives a compelling analysis that conceived a story of how Lenin came to power and ran his rebellious state. During this time violence and tyranny and corruption where the norm in Russia which prompted Lenin to sanction the deaths of many who were perceived as enemies. Lenin devised a plan based on the idea that political terror was justified.
Lenin’s behavior can be further backed by an article by Manya Gordon which revealed Lenin discovered that to build

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