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Robert Service on Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution

The Secrets of Statecraft

CHAPTER

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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