jaclyn_youngblood's review against another edition
3.0
A quick Sunday afternoon review of three major elements of the events leading up to the Bolshevik's power grab to Stalin's takeover from Lenin. Interesting for its anti-revisionist stance, Pipes finds only Stalin's rise to be inevitable among the topics considered: fall of tsarism, Bolshevik success in '17, and Stalin's succession of Lenin.
maneater's review against another edition
1.0
This book is extremely biased and the ego of the author makes it kind of hard "most authors say this BUT I have concluded that and it's right bc I'm the only one who says so :)". I wouldn't recommend it that much thanks to the way it's written. I hope it wasn't so vague all the time, and he tackles so much down in every one of the three questions that I couldn't consistently answer you any of them, each point gets lost.
the fact he is American and worked for president Regan tells you enough on his view on Russia in general.
the fact he is American and worked for president Regan tells you enough on his view on Russia in general.
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