The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (Annals of Communism Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300069197 ISBN 13: 9780300069198

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Edited and introduced by an eminent Russian scholar, a collection of newly released documents from Russia's Lenin archive and dating from 1886 to the end of Lenin's life exposes him as an utterly ruthless and manipulative leader. UP.

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Review:

Since the fall of Communism in Russia, the Kremlin archives have yielded a hitherto hidden history of the Soviet regime. Richard Pipes, emeritus professor of Russian history at Harvard and author of Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, is the principal editor of this first collection of secret Lenin papers published in English. The collection reveals sides of the Bolshevik leader long guessed at in the West but never proven, particularly his efforts to subvert the West. Such revelations make this volume an invaluable historical tool that helps part the Iron Curtain of silence and disinformation.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0300069197
• ISBN 13: 9780300069198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Pipes Professor Richard