Leaders. 4th edition. Devyatov S.V.

The Book “The Drums” includes the detailed biographies of the largest figures of Soviet Russia, who were on the Russian political Olympus from 1917 to 1924. The book was compiled uniquely from the point of view of its content: the biographies of politicians of that era are given either in their own exposition either written by their close associates, or set forth by the ideological opponents of the Bolsheviks. The author also gives his detailed comment on biographies and the facts and events set forth in them.

The biographies of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin are of the greatest interest in this regard. The book “Leads” contains great factual material related to the history of both the Bolshevik Party and the young Soviet state. Through the prism of biographies of famous politicians, many important events from the history of Russia of the 20s are visible. XX century.

the choice of the leaders of the party and the state entered the book was very successful. The highest political leadership of Russia is also represented - three voluminous articles about Lenin, three articles about Stalin, three articles about Trotsky. Another group of biographies is devoted to people who were ideologists of the Communist Party. Among them stood out Bukharin and Preobrazhensky. And, finally, prominent party leaders who headed Soviet and economic bodies, such as Rykov, Krestinsky, Sokolnikov.

The book is easily read and will be interesting to both professional scientists and teachers, as well as a wide range of readers.

4th edition, corrected and supplemented.