レーニンは兄の処刑によって革命家の道に進むことになりました。しかし最初からマルクス主義者として出発したのではありませんでした。彼はまずチェルヌイシェフスキーに傾倒します。

レーニンの母は彼が兄と同じ道を辿ることを恐れました。そのため農地経営を彼にさせようとしますが全く興味を示しません。彼は田舎生活を読書三昧で過ごし、自らの思想を練っていたのです。

そしてその後さらに心配した母は今度は弁護士になることを勧めます。そして驚くべきことに通常４年かかるカリキュラムを１年で終え、全ての科目でトップを取るという異次元の頭脳を見せつけました。やはりレーニンは驚くべき人物です。

こうして弁護士としての資格を取得しつつも、彼は革命家としての道を進んで行くことになります

Lenin was often thought of as a ruthless dictator who determined the direction of the subsequent Soviet Union. However, Lenin was an ordinary man who grew up in a wealthy, warm family. His life changed drastically when his brother was executed and he was ostracized in the town. This background is what led Lenin to become a revolutionary, and it gave me a slightly different impression of Lenin from the ruthless and cruel dictator he had been.

もちろん、レーニンのことを全肯定したとかそういうことではありません。しかし、身内が皇帝に殺されたという背景、家庭が壊されたという被害者意識、周囲の人間たちに手のひら返しをされたことによる人間不信など、様々な要因があってレーニンは革命へと突き進んでいったことを知ったのでありました。

In this book, you will get to know a different Lenin from the image of Lenin deified by the Soviet Union.

And above all, this biography is just fascinating! It is a very clear and exciting account of why the revolution happened in Russia and how Lenin seized power. The author's narration is so brilliant that it reads like a novel.

I recommend this book anyway.

Beyond the Russian Revolution and Lenin, this is the best reference book on human history and man himself.

Although the Siberian Invasion is not often highlighted in history, it was in fact a very important event that would later lead to World War II.

You will often be surprised at the unexpected discoveries that you did not know about in this book, such as not only the intention to warn the communist Soviets, but also the pressure from Western countries and the background of having to appeal to them in order to get a share of the First World War.

The war was a long and tragic battle, and the growing mutual suspicion and hatred between Japan and the Soviet Union was reminiscent of the Sino-Japanese War that followed.

The book made me feel that the Siberian Exodus was actually a significant event in the history of Japan.

In 1921, the Soviet Union was suffering from a severe famine. However, this famine was not a natural disaster, but a man-made one. The previous year, Lenin had thoroughly deprived the peasants of food, even taking away seeds for the next year's planting, causing havoc in the farming villages, which suffered from an unprecedented famine.

The Soviet Union was about to collapse if nothing was done, which led the Soviet Union to launch a new economic policy (nep). The relationship between the neb and starvation is the main theme of this book.

Although the Soviet Union's vision of a great future is often associated with NEP, author Kajikawa, based on documents from the time, goes on to show that NEP was not a very ideal policy as it was associated with starvation in the first place.

In this book, you will learn the horrifying fact that the illusions portrayed by the Soviet leadership led to enormous starvation deaths.

I read this book to find out what the hell was going on during the Soviet era, and it was far more tragic than I had ever imagined. I was shocked at how cruel and violent human beings could be.

I visited Auschwitz in 2019. Even then, I felt the cruelty of mankind in all its glory. But I learned again that massacres on a comparable scale were committed during the Lenin/Stalin era.

This book is quite shocking. It made me want to turn away from reading it.