‘Lenin: Life and Legacy’, by Dmitri Volkogonov (Harper Collins £) The author of this page book is a high-level Soviet Army officer who from the mid- 80s held the post of Director of the Institute of Military History and in August became Defence Adviser to President Yeltsin. Synopsis. About this title. With access to unpublished Lenin documents held in the Communist Party archives and elsewhere, Volkogonov shows that the violence and coercion that characterized the Soviet system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 s and s. The author also describes in detail the personal life of /5(). Lenin: life and legacy. Volkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich; Shukman, Harold. This is the fully documented life of one of the greatest revolutionaries in history. The author describes in detail his personal life, his family and friends, his private finances and the illness that crippled the final months of his life Statement of responsibility.
Buy Lenin: A New Biography 1st Edition by Volkogonov, Dmitri (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Paul Flewers Review: Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy This review appeared in New Interventions, Volume 7, no 3, Autumn Key words — Lenin, Volkogonov, Soviet Union, Leninism. Note on the author — Paul Flewers is a socialist historian and a member of the Editorial Boards of New Interventions and Revolutionary History. Volkogonov, as a first hand participant and observer, is able to talk bout how the seeds for the great terrors and purges were dictated by the ideologies of Lenin; detailed many times in the book, is how ruthless and calculating Lenin was - and how he saw any form of democracy, embodies by the Mensheviks, as anathema to the revolution.
Lenin: A New Biography. by. Dmitri Volkogonov. · Rating details · ratings · 23 reviews. 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. Lenin: Life and Legacy. ‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s founder ’. In the first fully documented life of one of the greatest revolutionaries in history, Dmitri Volkogonov is. *** Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy, Harper Collins, London, , pp, £ Prior to his death late last year, General Dmitri Volkogonov had established himself more or less as the court historian of the post-Soviet Russian élite, ready to condemn not merely the Stalin era, but the entire Soviet experience, Lenin and all.
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