The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire by Dmitri Volkogonov
After biographies of the giants of Soviet history Stalin (1991), Lenin (1994) and Trotsky (1996) Volkogonov delves deeper into the Soviet archives to produce new character evaluations and political assessments of the leaders who ruled the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991: Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev.Dmitri Volkogonov was a Colonel-General in the Soviet Army’s propaganda department until his views came to be regarded as ‘un-Soviet’. The biographer of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky, he became Defence Adviser to President Yeltsin. He died in December 1995, shortly after completing this book.
Harold Shukman, who also translated Volkogonov’s Stalin and Lenin, is a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002557917 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002557916 |
| Title | The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire |
| Author | Dmitri Volkogonov |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1998-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
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