Lenin. The Priest Of Terror

"The trail of the God-man on earth is like a laceration," said the poet. Deified by Soviet propaganda, LENIN left a bloody, festering scar that hurts even a century later. What he was – the greatest genius of Russia or its curse? A great humanist – or the Punisher, and executioner? Inspired by the Creator – or ruthless destroyer, which instead of the pit under the temple of the bright future dug a burial trench for the Russian people? God of Revolution or priest of Terror?..
First gaining access to the secret archives of the Central Committee of the Communist party and the NKVD-KGB, having a painful path from "faithful Leninist" to a convinced anti-Communist, and from the worship Leader to rejection of totalitarianism, Volkogonov has created a book that became a revelation, not just shook, and literally changed the public consciousness. To this day it is the best biography of Lenin, available to Russian readers. This is a striking portrait of a man, sincerely desirous of good, but left in our history trail, "such ragged wound that is not healed yet.