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Title: The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (Annals of Communism) by Richard Pipes, Vladimir Il'ich Lenin ISBN: 0-300-07662-2 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lenin speaks for himself
Comment: Richard Pipes' presentation of archival material concerning Lenin is of great value to anyone interested in the paper trail leading from the millions of corpses scattered across Soviet history to the feet of comrade Lenin. The reviews of this book are interesting since, speaking literally, Pipes did not write the book: Lenin et. al did. Lenin himself and his various murderer flunkies, wrote the documents that comprise the book. So those that squeal like a stuck pig over this book do so in the face of the fact that Pipes did not write it -- Lenin and his accomplices are the authors of most of the material. Pipes selected documents that demonstrate Lenin's hand in various murderous terror campaigns (the persecution of the Orthodox Church), his creation of a police-terror state, and his subversive work with the Germans. This is Lenin, these are the things he did. Others suggest that somehow Pipes' selection is 'unbalanced.' Hmmm . . . Does that mean that somewhere in all the archival material there is something like an order taken by Lenin's assistant asking that flowers be sent to his wife; a photograph of Lenin passing out candy to children; a letter where the diligent Lenin promises to come over to a common prole's house to roll up his sleeves himself and fix his leaking pipes? Better yet, perhaps in the Soviet archives there is a heartwarming birthday greeting Lenin sent to Dzhirnsky: 'Happy birthday! Don't gas too many peasants in the woods on this, your special day!" Did Pipes select only those documents that portray Lenin in a bad light? It is nonsense to suggest that Pipes purposely left out documents that allow a kind, gentle, loving, zany Lenin to come through. This book testifies to the fact that Lenin was simply a nihilist, someone who did not believe in anything and simply wanted to destroy out of hatred. There is no intellectual substance to communism. It is nihilism pure and simple and thrives on darkness. Read the book for yourself and don't let those who condone murder and destruction try and make it sound as if this book is somehow 'biased.' Lies beget lies and this is what nihilists live for.
Rating: 5
Summary: Provides Documentation of the True Character of Lenin
Comment: While this is a slender volume, it provides very important documentary evidence of what had been hinted at and alluded to previously. The criminal nature of the Soviet Union can no longer be explained away as a corruption by Stalin of the pure and noble ideology of Lenin. The documents provided here clearly demonstrate Lenin's criminality and his role in building the terror state that was the USSR.
Dr. Richard Pipes, a great scholar on Soviet history, has done a great service for us in putting this material together so concisely and powerfully. It is another important volume in the Annals of Communism series that I cannot praise enough.
Dr. Pipes provides an introduction and a biographical sketch of Lenin, a few pictures, commentary on the importance of each document. The documents themselves are often excerpts while many are presented in full translation. There are a couple of them also provided in the original by a photograph of the actual document.
This is a vital book in understanding the origins of the Soviet Union and the nature of the relationships among the founders of what led to so many horrors and so many deaths.
Rating: 5
Summary: Necessary correction.
Comment: For many people from the left, Stalin was the ultimate gravedigger of the Revolution (Trotsky).
The first one was Lenin, by creating a one party state ruled by him.
One should remember that in the free elections of 1919 in Russia, the bolshevik party got only a good 17% of the votes. But Lenin kept his power. As Tomsky said : there was only one party, the others were in prison.
Pipes' picture is all too real: Lenin was - and there are reasons for it : his brother's death for instance - a cynical, ruthless, aggressive agitator, who despised humanity and the workers to whom he told he was to create a paradise for them.
He understood that farmers and industrial workers saw only their own interests, not his: to create a new society with new human beings.
The results of his policies were dreadful: the USSR stopped to communicate health statistics to the WHO in the seventies, because they were too disastrous.
When I was in Moscow, an important person in Russia (I saw recently a quote from him in an international newspaper) told me the following joke: why are Lenin's statues on the market place of every village? Because his arm indicates where vodka is sold. That was the future of the country.
No, Julia Voznesenskaya is more than right: communism was the power of the soviets and the alcoholisation of the country (The women's Decameron).
I recommend this necessary political essay to everybody.
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Title: Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936 (Annals of Communism Series) by Lars T. Lih, Oleg V. Naumov, Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick ISBN: 0300068611 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Secret World of American Communism (Annals of Communism Series) by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Fridrikh I. Firsov, Timothy D. Sergay ISBN: 0300068557 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes ISBN: 0679736603 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 05 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Russia Under the Old Regime by Richard Pipes ISBN: 0140247688 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service ISBN: 0674008286 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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