Lenin. Priest of terror in a gift version

"The footprint of the God-man on earth is like a ragged wound, " the poet said. Deified by Soviet propaganda, V. I. Lenin left behind a bloody, unhealed scar that hurts even a century later. Who he was - the greatest genius of Russia or its curse? A great humanist - or a Punisher and executioner? An inspired Creator - or a merciless destroyer who, instead of a pit for the temple of the bright future, dug a grave ditch for the Russian people? God of Revolution - or priest of Terror?..
The first to gain access to the secret archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the NKVD-KGB, having passed the painful path from a "loyal Leninist" to a staunch anti-Communist and from the worship of the Leader to the complete rejection of totalitarianism, D. A. Volkogonov created a book that became a revelation, not just shocked, but literally turned the public consciousness. To this day, this is the best biography of Lenin available to domestic readers. This is a striking portrait of a man who sincerely wished well, but left a mark in our history, "like a torn wound" that has not yet healed.