Lenin. Priest of terror. Volkogonov D.A.

The trace of the God -man on earth is like a teamed wound, ”said the poet. Defeated by Soviet propaganda, V. I. Lenin left behind a bloody, non -healing scar, which hurts even a century later. Who was he - the greatest genius of Russia or its curse? A great humanist - or a punisher and an executioner? An inspired creator - or a merciless destroyer, who instead of a foundation pit under the temple of a bright future dug a grave moat for the Russian people? The god of revolution - or the priest of terror?.. Having first gained access to the secret archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the NKVD-KGB, having gone a painful path from the “faithful Lenin” to the convinced anti-communist and from worshiping the leader to the complete denial of totalitarianism, D. A. Volkogonov created a book that became a revelation, not just shocked, but literally shocked, but literally Inverted public consciousness. To this day, this is the best biography of Lenin, accessible to the Russian reader. This is a striking portrait of a man who sincerely wanted good, but left a trace in our history, “a similar wounded wound”, which has not yet healed.