Lenin and His Comrades

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'etat 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.