From Lenin to Malenkov

This comparative analysis of various communist movements across the globe from eminent British historian and political scientist, Hugh Seton-Watson, delves deeply into the social and political states of countries where communists attempted to seize—and successfully seized—power. The author of many of the mid-20th century's standard works on Russian and Eastern European history, Seton-Watson's 1953 study carefully follows the sequence of communist revolution: from the Marxist-Leninist seizure of