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ZIN Product Number: 10002785
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
Publisher: Free Press, The
ISBN: 0029334357
Release Date: Jan 12, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This biography of the Soviet leader is a condensed English version of the two-volume Russian edition, published in 1994. It is based on unpublishedsecret archival materials. The author argues "that Lenin, far from having laid the foundations for a more liberal form of socialism, was the true progenitor of Stalinism; and . . . that in his personality and philosophy Lenin was hostile to the interests of Russia." (Economist) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
For years, westerners have wondered what secrets were preserved not only in the KGB archives, but also in dozens of other off-limits locations. Now that Dmitri Volkogonov, historian and former general in the Soviet Army, has been entrusted with the management of the archives as a Special Assistant to Boris Yeltsin, we at last have a chance to find out. For the last three years he has combed through more than 3700 once-secret documents covering every piece of information in the archive system concerning Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin and his legacy. He has woven this mountain of information into a compelling story of the Soviet founding father and the system he created. Volkogonov offers a radical departure from the traditional interpretation of Lenin as an idealist. Many of the characteristics of so-called Stalinism, he shows, arose in Lenin's lifetime, often on Lenin's direct orders. From the creation of concentration camps, to brutal repression of the church and the media, to the strategic cultivation of a cult of personality, Lenin's leadership was cruel and totalitarian. Volkogonov also offers select revelations from the post-Lenin years in order to demonstrate that the worst excesses of the Soviet state all had their roots in its founding father. In Volkogonov's words, for years "we asked ourselves where Stalin had acquired the cruelty which he inflicted on his fellow countrymen. None of us - the present author included - could begin to imagine that the father of domestic Russian terrorism, merciless and totalitarian, could have been Lenin."
| | | | Annotation
The first biography of the Soviet founder based on full access to the newly opened Russian archives. This compelling story of Lenin and the system he created demonstrates that many of the characteristics of so-called Stalinism were firmly laid down in Lenin's lifetime, usually on Lenin's direct orders. 8-page photo insert.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
Off-topic and tedious
-- Jon Eckel, an avid reader from Los Angeles, February 23, 2000
Also Recommended: _The Bolsheviks_, by Adam Ulam. Very unsympathetic to Lenin but far superior to this book. I'm also impressed with what I've read so far of Robert Service's trilogy _Lenin: A Political Life_.
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| | | | | | Keywords
Biography, History, Soviet Union, Heads of state, 1917-1936, Lenin, Vladimir Ilich,, 1870-1924, Heads of state, Soviet Union, Biography, Russia - History, Biography / Autobiography, History, Russia (pre & post Soviet Union)
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