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Trotsky

Eternal Revolutionary

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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Trotsky

Eternal Revolutionary

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

Through exclusive archive access and interviews, Dmitri Volkogonov provides a reinterpretation of the life and ruthless career of Leon Trotksy, one of the most influential figures of the 20th century whose faith in the world socialist revolution remained undimmed to the end. This biography examines Leon Trotsky’s career as a revolutionary before World War I, including his success as chief organizer of the October revolution, becoming a military hero of the Russian civil war, and his outspoken criticism of the Stalinist style of leadership. Expelled from the Communist Party, written out of the history of the revolution, and murdered in Mexico by Stalin’s agents, Volkogonov shines a light on this dynamic public speaker, brilliant organizer, and theorist. Through interviews with Stalin’s overseas hit-squad and relatives of Trotsky, as well as access to top-secret Soviet archives, Trotsky lends insight into one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439105731

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9781439105733

Stalin

Triumph and Tragedy

By: Dmitrii Antonovich Volkogonov

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Stalin

Triumph and Tragedy

By: Dmitrii Antonovich Volkogonov

A remarkable biography of Josef Stalin

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642

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1842120263

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9781842120262

Lenin

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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Lenin

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

Dmitri Volkogonov, the special assistant to Boris Yeltsin, uses secret Soviet archives to shift the perspective of Lenin’s time as a leader, revealing the Founding Father as a cruel totalitarian responsible for some of the worst moments in the Soviet state. In a biography that drastically changes the perception of Vladimir Lenin, a Soviet revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, numerous secrets are exposed from previously off-limits KGB archives. After three years of research through more than 3,700 once-secret documents, Volkogonov reveals the information found in the system concerning Lenin and his legacy, painting a compelling, shocking story about the Soviet founding father and the system he created. From the creation of concentration camps to brutal repression of church and the media, and the strategic cultivation of a cult of personality, Lenin reveals the truth behind the cruel and totalitarian leader’s past.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439105545

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9781439105542

Lenin: A biography (Text Only)

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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Lenin: A biography (Text Only)

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s founder...’ Sally Laird, Observer

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HarperCollins

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0007392672

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9780007392674

Autopsy For An Empire

The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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Autopsy For An Empire

The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure. Having utilized his still-unequaled access to the Soviet military archives, Communist Party documents, and secret Presidential Archive, Volkogonov sheds new light on some of the major events of twentieth-century history and the men who shaped them. We witness Lenin’s paranoia about foreigners in Russia, and his creation of a privileged system for top Party members; Stalin’s repression of the nationalities and his singular conduct of foreign policy; the origins and conduct of the Korean War; Kruschev’s relationship with the odious secret service chief, Beria, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Brezhnev’s vanity and stupidity; a new view of Poland and Solidarity; the ossification of Soviet bureaucracy and the cynicism of the Politburo; and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Leninism and his role in history. By profiling the seven successive Soviet leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, Volkogonov also depicts in painstaking detail the progressive self-destruction of the Leninist system. In his clear-eyed character assessments and political evaluations, lucidly translated and edited by Harold Shukman, Dmitri Volkogonov has once again performed an invaluable service to twentieth-century history.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439105723

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9781439105726

Autopsy For An Empire

The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

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Trotsky

Eternal Revolutionary

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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Eternal Revolutionary

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Lenin

By: Dmitri Volkogonov

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Russia

By: Dmitri Trenin

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Russia

By: Dmitri Trenin

Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book, leading Russia scholar Dmitri Trenin accompanies readers on Russia’s rollercoaster journey from revolution to post-war devastation, perestroika to Putin’s stabilization of post-Communist Russia. Explaining the causes and the meaning of the numerous twists and turns in contemporary Russian history, he offers a vivid insider’s view of a country through one of its most trying and often tragic periods. Today, he cautions, Russia stands at a turning point – politically, economically and socially – its situation strikingly reminiscent of the Russian Empire in its final years. For the Russian Federation to avoid a similar demise, it must learn the lessons of its own history.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509527702

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9781509527700

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Trotsky

Trotsky

Stalin

Stalin

Lenin

Lenin

Lenin: A biography (Text Only)

Lenin: A biography (Text Only)

Autopsy For An Empire

Autopsy For An Empire

Autopsy For An Empire

Autopsy For An Empire

Trotsky

Trotsky

Lenin

Lenin

Russia

Russia

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