Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution
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Do We Really Understand Dictators?
We always fail to understand dictators. Dictators don't think like generals. One could put oneself into the boots of a general and get a rough idea of how they things. But the tetator is very, very different. The bolsheviks thought that there was going to be no trouble about allowing a certain amount of autonomy or independence to these former nation states of the russian empire. And that's where they madee that made her great mistake.
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