This is a big book that I might not have read unless I searched for it and found it after reading an article by the author which struck me as truthful in the sense that one says, "this guy is telling the truth," regardless of whatever literary or personal foibles he may have. To say that I was surprised is an understatement. This is on my list of the top 50 must reads. To understand how a large part of the civilized world has been hoodwinked by both the academic and political / economic powers that be in this world, one deserves to read something like this work. I suppose the author could have found no better title for it, for in a way he intended it to be autobiography. But it isn't really. Or it is besides something else; a lot of personal venting about historical facts that are well known to him and should be better known to the rest of the world. Doubtless some have already come to the conclusions this author has reached.

He should be read in any course dealing with Soviet history, Soviet-American relations, political science or Russian history.

Anyone after reading this work who honestly has the courage to call him/herself a communist, socialist or social idealist, including most of the talking heads in the media or those who manage to get their voices heard there, should be consigned (openly and in public) to even greater fusillades of ridicule and scorn until they and their opinions vanish from the public scene, unless of course they want to share responsibility for the murder of hundreds of millions of human beings, more in one century (the 20th just past, the bloodiest in history) than they claim for all the religious wars in all of history put together, which they wont since they are mostly cowards.

Hats off to Lev Navrozov! May he succeed in getting his next work published and may all the world (civilized that is) read it with appreciation.