num_pages: 274
description: Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923 to 2005) was a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.He would serve as Head of Ideology, and was the personal friend and confident of all the major figures of the era.Initially committed to the ideals of Soviet Socialism, Yakovlev slowly realised the system he upheld was guilty of monstrous crimes.He would later become head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression.This is Yakovlev's exposé of the violence of the regime to its people. It is a confrontational work, tackling head on both the perpetrators of the crimes, and modern day apologists for Soviet Russia.He chronicles in forensic detail the persecution on a vast scale of children, peasants, the intelligentsia, Jews, minorities, and fellow socialists.Yakovlev states "To descend step by step down sev­enty years of Bolshevik rule into a dungeon strewn with human bones and reeking of dried blood is to see your faith in humankind dissolve."A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia is one of the greatest political works ever written, ranking alongside Primo Levi's "If This is a Man", and Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipeligo".[This edition is published by the Historical Revival Society, which provides electronic editions of rare manuscripts, at the lowest cost. All revenue is donated to the British Museum].
language: English
title: A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia