Written by a Russian general, it presupposes a lot of foreknoweledge of Russian and Leninist history. Jumps around from year to year with no clear "biographical" pattern. ( )

Written by a Russian general, it presupposes a lot of foreknoweledge of Russian and Leninist history. Jumps around from year to year with no clear "biographical" pattern. ( )

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Lenin (1994) by Dmitri Volkogonov is worth reading if you’re one of the six people in North America interested in 20th century history. Some parts are long, with more details than we avid readers need about political backstabbing among the Bolsheviks. The book does not follow strictly chronological order. To make a general point about Lenin’s legacy, Volkogonov will range freely to the times of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Era of Funerals (gerontocracy). Professional historians probably hate this jumping around, but it makes it interesting for us non-specialist readers.

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