Lenin and Trotsky. The path to power
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Anniversaries V.I. Lenin and L.D. Trotsky in 2019 and 2020 caused a new wave of interest in these political figures. The English historian Alan Woods, who wrote a detailed thorough book about them, took the words of Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the English revolution of the 17th century, and then the Lord Protector of England: "draw me true, with all warts! - said Cromwell to the artist who ordered his portrait.
A. Woods pays tribute to the political talent of Lenin and Trotsky, but at the same time is not afraid to show the mistakes that they made. “After the revolution,” he writes, “Lenin once said for some reason that the Bolsheviks committed a“ many stupid things ”. In order for the new generation to extract lessons from the history of Bolshevism, it is important to draw it "with all warts", truthful."
It remains to add that the book uses a huge number of historical sources, including never published in Russia
A. Woods pays tribute to the political talent of Lenin and Trotsky, but at the same time is not afraid to show the mistakes that they made. “After the revolution,” he writes, “Lenin once said for some reason that the Bolsheviks committed a“ many stupid things ”. In order for the new generation to extract lessons from the history of Bolshevism, it is important to draw it "with all warts", truthful."
It remains to add that the book uses a huge number of historical sources, including never published in Russia
Author:
Author:Woods Alan
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Social Science & Politics
Series:
Series: Soviet Age
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907255-87-6
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