Dmitri Volkogonov, Author Free Press $69 (604p) ISBN 978-0-02-933435-5
In a notably revelatory biography, Volkogonov presents the most compelling evidence to date that Lenin, not Stalin, was the true father of Soviet totalitarianism. The author draws heavily on newly declassified KGB archives that he oversees as...
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Dmitri Volkogonov, Author Free Press $32.5 (560p) ISBN 978-0-684-82293-8
Although for years Trotsky had condemned Lenin as a potential dictator, in 1917 he became a radical Bolshevik, a hard-line Leninist committed to a one-party state with a monopoly of power sustained through terror and violence. Together with Lenin,...
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Dmitri Volkogonov, Author, Harold Shukman, Editor Grove/Atlantic $29.95 (642p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1165-4
The most candid and fullest reappraisal of Stalin to date by a Soviet source, this chilling, remarkably intimate, gripping biography marks an historical as well as scholarly event. How was it possible for an inconspicuous Party functionary, with...
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Dmitri Volkogonov, Author, Harold Shukman, Translator Free Press $32 (608p) ISBN 978-0-684-83420-7
Volkogonov, a Soviet historian, military general and debunking biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, completed this illuminating study shortly before his death in 1995. Of the seven Soviet rulers profiled, Gorbachev gets the highest marks for...
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