Review: Good Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
The eBook was free, thank you very much.  I posted my review on Goodreads.Read the book.  This author has done an excellent job of showing that Russia and its citizens are multifaceted and defy containment or explanation.  The book is both witty and serious.  It is about Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution and WWI, all occurring in the same timeline.  Those subjects are as huge as Russia herself.  I love reading about Russian history because I want inside the psyche of the Russian people.  Alas, Russia remains reclusive and closed to me, but in this book the door was opened a little wider than ever before.  I caught a glimpse of Russia through the eyes of Archie Fox, a friend to Lenin and a most lovable and degenerate man if ever there was one.Thank you, Mr. Hennessey, for a good read.