Richard Pipes was for many years a professor of history at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books and essays on Russia, past and present, including Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime. In 1981–82 he served as President Reagan's National Security Council adviser on Soviet and East European affairs, and he has twice received a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Marlborough, New Hampshire.
"Monumental ... lucidly written, unsurpassed in detail and
comprehensiveness." —The Wall Street Journal on The Russian
Revolution
"Profound and rigorous.... Offers a penetrating analysis of the
making of the Soviet system . . no review could do full justice to
this great work.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding
scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor,
responsibility and the sacredness of human life." —Philadelphia
Inquirer
"Timely.... The work is enriched in intriguing ways by the author's
access to the once-secret archives of the Soviet Union." —Los
Angeles Times
"Remarkable.... A heavy indictment of Lenin and his colleagues
which Pipes presents with deadly effect. . . . [His] portrait of
Lenin shows that ... his cruelty was more rational than Stalin's
but equally remorseless.Pipes has performed a notable service in
making all these things plain." —Sunday Times (London)
"Richard Pipes is one of the most perceptive observers of the
Russian scene." —Christian Science Monitor
"Destined to replace ... the standard source on the subject." —New
Leader
"Inspired.... Few other historians have so powerfully chronicled
the ferocity of Bolshevik sentiment and Bolshevik practice."
—Sunday Telegraph
"A brilliant scholar The chapter on cultural policies ... is the
best short survey of its kind A monumental political history."
—Guardian
"Magnificent. ... It is [the] contemporary background which makes
Pipes's book so compelling.... We owe a debt of gratitude to
Richard Pipes forat long last giving us a history of the Russian
revolution 'as it actually was.' " —Daily Mail
"A tremendously distinguished work of revisionist history ....
Pipes makes even the most complex events comprehensible....
Original and often startling.... It is rare that a book is both
completely revisionist and liable to become the standard text on
its subject. This is one." —Daily Telegraph
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