The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive
ISBN-10
0300076622
ISBN-13
9780300076622
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
1996-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

Description

Lenin - the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader - has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their sympathizers abroad. The Unknown Lenin, containing long concealed documents from the Soviet archives, helps correct the myth and revise the image. Lenin emerges here as a ruthless, manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals.

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