Lenin i Trotskii. Put' k vlasti - Vuds A.

The anniversaries of Lenin and L.D. Trotsky in 2019 and 2020 have sparked a new wave of interest in these politicians. English historian Alan Woods, who wrote a detailed book about them, the motto to it took the words of Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the English Revolution of the 17th century, and then the Lord Protector of England: "Draw me truthfully, with all the warts!" - said Cromwell to the artist who was ordered his portrait. A. Woods pays homage to the political talent of Lenin and Trotsky, but at the same time is not afraid to show the mistakes they made. "After the revolution," he writes, "Lenin once said for some reason that the Bolsheviks had done "a lot of stupid things." For the new generation to learn from the history of Bolshevism, it is important to draw it "with all the warts, truthfully." It remains to be added that the book uses a huge number of historical sources, including never published in Russia.