
Robert Service on Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
The Secrets of Statecraft
Literature and Historical Hypotheses
This chapter features a dialogue on reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, celebrating its linguistic richness and historical context. It also examines the pivotal events of 1917 in Russia, speculating on how the deaths of key figures like Lenin and Trotsky could have changed the course of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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