What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d'etat by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn't hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start. AUTHOR: Yuri Felshtinsky, who immigrated to the US in 1978, is a historian with a PhD from Rutgers University and a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. He is the author of several books, among them THE FAILURE OF WORLD REVOLUTION (1991), BLOWING UP RUSSIA (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007). 30 photos

Author Biography

Yuri Felshtinsky, who immigrated to the US in 1978, is a historian with a PhD from Rutgers University and a doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. He is the author of several books, among them THE FAILURE OF WORLD REVOLUTION (1991), BLOWING UP RUSSIA (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007). He lives near Boston.