Lenin: A New Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Volkogonov, Dmitri

Leaders & Notable People

Free Press

With access to unpublished Lenin documents held in the Communist Party archives and elsewhere, Volkogonov shows that the violence and coercion that characterized the Soviet system derived entirely from Lenin, and that Lenin's regime designed and set in motion the machinery of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s and 1940s. The author also describes in detail the personal life of Lenin: his family antecedents, his private finances, the early funding of the Bolshevik Party, his relationship with his mistress Inessa Armand, and the illness that crippled the final months of his life.

Lenin : Life and Legacy

Harpercollins

Lenin: A biography

HARPER/COLLINS

TROTSKY: The Eternal Revolutionary

Historical

The special assistant to Boris Yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of Lenin with a biography based on secret Soviet archives, revealing the Founding Father as a cruel, totalitarian leader who was responsible for the worst excesses of the Soviet state.

A reinterpretation of the life and ruthless career of Leon Trotsky, once known as a tragic figure in Soviet history, is based on Soviet and Western archives, interviews with surviving members of the Trotsky family, and members of NKVD hit squad ordered by Stalin to locate and kill Trotsky. 15,000 first printing.

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary

A complete history of the seven men who led the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 is based on unprecedented access to Soviet archives and reveals exactly what occurred behind the scenes during every major event in Soviet history. 20,000 first printing.

Autopsy for an Empire : The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

History

Russia

Simon&Schuster

Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

Americas

Touchstone

The author destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The old idea that Lenin created the communist system and Stalin took it to its extreme is shown to be flawed. The "Stalinist" methods of the Big Lie and violence against the population at home were present from the beginning. The author shows how the Bolsheviks colluded with the German High Command when the Russian Provisional Government was fighting for its life in World War I, and later reveals how Lenin sold off vast numbers of tsarist treasures in the West for the express purpose of financing the launch of Communist Parties in the West. No more definitive analysis of Leninism as a state system, ideological doctrine and way of thinking will be written.

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