Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
by Dmitri Volkogonov

Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
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Author: Dmitri Volkogonov
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-01
ISBN: 0684871122
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Touchstone

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Summary: 5 Stars

This is an excellent book, but, of course, only those will enjoy it and find it fascinating who are deeply interested in the history and demise of the Soviet Union. The author had access to Soviet documents, which had been top secret previously. So he can reveal new information about the seven leaders of the Soviet Union, namely Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchov, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachov. (The author was a three star general of the Soviet Union.)
I think it would help the reader if he first read the author's detailed biographies of Lenin and Stalin. His bio of Trotsky is also relevant.
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Summary of Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime

In accordance with his belief that "it is often easier to become acquainted with the history of a period if it is seen through the lives of individuals," Dmitri Volkogonov's last book before his 1995 death addresses the lives of the seven men who ruled the Soviet Union during its seven decades of existence. Making full use of the access granted to him as a high-ranking officer of the Soviet Army (and later as military advisor to Boris Yeltsin) to the secret archives of the Communist Party, he amplifys and expands upon the themes of his full length biographies of Lenin and Stalin, then proceeds to take on their successors up to Mikhail Gorbachev. With painstaking details drawn from a true insider's perspective, he recreates both the stagnation of the Soviet bureaucracy and the collapse set in motion by perestroika. "Perhaps the only thing I achieved in this life," Volkogonov wrote, "was to break with the faith I had held for so long." That is untrue; he also brilliantly chronicled how that faith came to impose itself upon an entire society. Autopsy of an Empire is a fitting conclusion to that legacy.

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