This book is an analysis of how Russia has changed under the leadership of seven men, one of whom meets the criteria set by Thomas Carlyle for a great man in history. Gorbachev, Khrushchev, and Putin are best seen as reformers. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Yeltsin, on the other hand, could have been governors in the fictitious town of Stupidity (Glupov). Created by the nineteenth century Russian satirist Saltykov-Shchedrin, the town was destroyed and...
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