Title: Nothing but rudimentary history
Product review: I read this book as part of the assigned reading for Professor's McClellan's class at the University of Virginia on Russia since 1917. The book, like the lectures and Professor McClellan in general, were none too impressive. The book has no new insights and does not even attempt to look at things in any sort of a new light. Instead, it is very traditional and not very good. The writing of the author is not noteworthy nor compelling. Thankfully, though, in the book McClellan does not make the outrageous and unfounded accusation that he makes in the class: that Lenin's last testament was a fraud.
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