Abraham Ascher — об авторе

This is a great primer that covers the Russian Revolution, from its roots in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century to "Stalin's completion of the revolution." The author provides the various reasons for why this political and social phenomenon began, how it evolved during the its formative years during the 1910s-1920s, and finally how it became a "dictatorship more authoritarian and ruthless than the Tsars."

The author does a thorough job of explaining why the Russian people were so disgruntled with the Tsarist government and how the Bolsheviks gradually gained power, both popularly and perniciously. One important point he makes throughout the book is that the revolution wasn't complete once the Bolsheviks assumed power in 1917; Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin all consolidated power…