Autopsy for an Empire The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

Name: Autopsy for an Empire The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
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ISBN: 9780684871127

ISBN-10: 0684871122

ISBN-13: 9780684871127

Edition: 1999

Authors: Dmitri Volkogonov

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The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure. Having utilized his still-unequaled access to the Soviet military archives, Communist Party documents, and secret Presidential Archive, Volkogonov sheds new light on some of the major events of twentieth-century history and the men who shaped them. We witness Lenin's paranoia about foreigners in Russia, and his creation of a privileged system for top Party members; Stalin's repression of the…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.606



List of Illustrations


Editor's Preface


Introduction: The Path of Leaders



The First Leader: Vladimir Lenin


'The Evil Genius'


The Sin of October


Lenin's Comrades-in-Arms


World Revolution


Behind the Scenes


The Creator of the System


The Fate of Leninism



The Second Leader: Joseph Stalin


Lenin's Outstanding Pupil


The Stalinist System


The Generalissimo's Baton


Secret Dialogues


The Stalin Papers


Korean Blind Alley


Is Stalinism Dead?



The Third Leader: Nikita Khrushchev


Encounter with a Monster


Crimea - A Gift from Khrushchev


De-Stalinization


The Impulsive Reformer


Revolutionary Diplomacy


Operation Anadyr


The Defeat of the Reformer



The Fourth Leader: Leonid Brezhnev


The Way Up


From Stability to Stagnation


Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan


Marshal, Hero, Laureate


The General Secretary's Papers


The Harbinger of Collapse



The Fifth Leader: Yuri Andropov


Fifteen Years as KGB Chief


Fifteen Months as Party Leader


The General Secretary and the Politburo


Symbol of the Andropov Era


Leadership from Hospital



The Sixth Leader: Konstantin Chernenko


The Emblem of Stagnation


Clerk to the Party


Brezhnev's Favourite


Thirteen Months


On the Eve of Perestroika



The Seventh Leader: Mikhail Gorbachev


The Last Leninist


Perestroika


The Gorbachev Paradox


The Lesson of Chernobyl


The End of Empire


Darling of the West


Gorbachev and Yeltsin


Gorbachev as a Historic Figure


Postscript


Notes


Index