Lenin. Priest of terror

“The trace of the God -man on Earth is like a tearing wound,” said the poet. Deaded by Soviet propaganda, V.I. Lenin left behind a bloody, non -healing scar, which hurts even a century later. Who was he - the greatest genius of Russia or its curse? A great humanist - or a punisher and an executioner? An inspired creator - or a merciless destroyer, who instead of a foundation pit under the temple of a bright future dug a grave moat for the Russian people? The god of revolution - or the priest of terror? ..
The first to access the secret archives of the CPSU and the NKVD-KGB, having passed a painful path from the "faithful Leninz" to the convinced anti-communist and from worshiping the leader to the complete denial of totalitarianism, D.A. Volkogonov created a book that became a revelation, not just shocked, but literally turned public consciousness. To this day, this is the best biography of Lenin, accessible to the Russian reader. This is a striking portrait of a man who sincerely wanted good, but left a trace in our history, a “similar wounded wound” that has not healed so far