Lenin and his comrades : [the Bolsheviks take over Russia 1917-1924

What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d’état by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn’t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start. **Yuri Felshtinsky** received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books include __The Failure of the World Revolution__ (1991), __Blowing up Russia__ (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007), and __The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin__ (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts. "What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d'état by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn't hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start."--Back cover Reads like a true crime investigation. Hard-hitting anti-communist slant by dissident critic of the communist regime.