Yes, it’s a very worthwhile read, although it’s more a group portrait of the people who surrounded Yosif Vissarionovich, who sometimes fades well into the background (but he’s always in the background, looming like the monster in a horror story).
But while you’re at it, you may as well also get the prequel.
July 23, 2009 at 3:31 pm |
Was that a conscious reference to “Young Frankenstein”?
August 4, 2009 at 5:21 am |
Pete Seeger once wrote a song saying he was “disappointed” in Stalin, that he “had high hopes for him once” and “he could’ve changed the world”.
You can’t make this stuff up.