Try Leo Tolstoy, Flight from Paradise. I read it in Russian but see it's been translated and is available on amazon. It's a general biography, despite the way it may look or be marketed.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
The February Revolution and Kerensky’s Missed Opportunity
13/03/2017 09:37:00 PM
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Fascinating stuff
13/03/2017 10:52:58 PM
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Who knows? It could have been worse off.
13/03/2017 11:37:54 PM
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What's your opinion on Lenin?
14/03/2017 02:06:59 AM
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Lenin. A monster.
14/03/2017 12:55:18 PM
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Thanks. I'll ask him too. *NM*
14/03/2017 03:01:36 PM
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Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky were all bloodthirsty mass murderers.
14/03/2017 08:59:06 PM
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That's fascinating. But give me a book recommendation!
14/03/2017 09:15:57 PM
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Start with a general history of Russia
14/03/2017 10:17:22 PM
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Read Figes first, I suppose.
14/03/2017 10:55:23 PM
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Thanks, Tom. I've been putting off reading good literature because of my unfamiliarity with Russia. *NM*
15/03/2017 02:12:10 AM
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Which books have you put off reading? *NM*
15/03/2017 12:05:32 PM
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DEMONS and THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV are the big two.
15/03/2017 02:58:13 PM
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You don't necessarily need to know the history.
15/03/2017 03:15:38 PM
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I'm always afraid I'm missing something critical, though!
15/03/2017 03:50:59 PM
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Annotations are amazing. My eBook version of War and Peace was the same.
15/03/2017 04:03:59 PM
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Tolstoy was a reprehensible human being
15/03/2017 04:02:52 PM
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I had no idea. I was under the impression he was deeply devout.
16/03/2017 01:47:43 AM
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Here's one example:
16/03/2017 02:06:45 AM
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Good lord. The man sounds deranged. But that's fascinating! Is there a good biography on him? *NM*
16/03/2017 07:50:10 AM
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Pavel Basinsky's bio is best
16/03/2017 02:46:47 PM
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For what it's worth, I read Lenin & Trotsky as genuine idealists, while Stalin as just a thug
15/03/2017 11:16:36 AM
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Didn't the 40k authors mainly crib from the Nazis, commissariat excepted? *NM*
15/03/2017 03:00:17 PM
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I think that's entirely incorrect.
15/03/2017 04:00:54 PM
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Fascinating post. I so need to read up on Soviet history. And Russian history. *NM*
15/03/2017 11:10:29 PM
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I didn't mean stupid or brutish, I meant more like a mafia don than a statesman
16/03/2017 12:18:34 PM
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Well if you want to completely redefine the phrase "just a thug", perhaps you're right
16/03/2017 02:43:38 PM
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Good point
16/03/2017 09:52:29 PM
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I hear what you're saying, but...
16/03/2017 11:53:19 PM
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Yeah, it doesn't really matter if the motive is purely power seeking, or revenge. *NM*
17/03/2017 12:57:19 AM
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Seems kind of nonsensical
14/03/2017 01:33:49 AM
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I still think democracy among those insidiously intrusive Western values Russia resists so fiercely
14/03/2017 02:37:39 PM
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Is it your persistant anti-Russia bias that makes you so dogmatic?
14/03/2017 02:51:23 PM
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Look, we both know I consider your knowledge of Russia to be non-existent and that your own bias
14/03/2017 03:27:05 PM
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Very interesting article. One thing that's struck me more and more about WW1 is...
14/03/2017 06:34:14 PM
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Re: Very interesting article. One thing that's struck me more and more about WW1 is...
15/03/2017 11:58:01 AM
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What a terrible article
14/03/2017 08:04:50 PM
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Your criticisms of the scholarship found in posted articles never fail to make me laugh.
14/03/2017 09:02:54 PM
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I don't think anyone's ever gotten an open peer review from me *NM*
14/03/2017 11:54:45 PM
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