The Unknown Lenin - From the Secret Archive

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.

Summary

Lenin the man has become part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image controlled by leaders of the Soviet Union. This work seeks to correct that myth and revise that image, and contains long-concealed documents from the Russian archives.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Richard Pipes
• Assisted by: Richard Pipes (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.1999
• EAN: 9780300076622
• ISBN: 978-0-300-07662-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 152 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: 10 b-w illus.
• Series: Annals of Communism; Annals of Communism; Annals of Communism (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies