The Soviet Union: The History and Legacy of the USSR from World War I to the End of the Cold War Audiobook Libro.fm

For 30 years much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin Their worst misfortune was his birth their next worst his death Before World War II Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders most famously Leon Trotsky and Red Army leaders executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least And in one of historys greatest textbook examples of the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend Stalins Soviet Union allied with Britain and the United States to defeat Hitler in Europe during World War II