Proletariat.

Some people, will acquire for themselves a small footnote in history. For most of us this is not so. We will live our lives, die, and soon be forgotten, and everything we did, and said, and were, will die with us. The characters featured in this book, have all made their mark on history. They will not be forgotten, but will live on in time, in legend, in reality, and in myth. This book is not intended, however, to be a thorough examination of their life and times. It merely paints the picture. It is popular history, a short-cut to events.

Much of the content can no doubt be debated, but then history is not a science. It is interpretative and in a constant state of flux, and in history evidence does not serve as proof

Unlike the millions who have come before us and the millions yet to come the characters of which I write did not pass through time, they were captured in time, and for all time. They truly are the Prisoners of Eternity.

The Fall of the Soviet Union.

After the Ching Dynasty lost power due to the effects of a civil war, the Kuomintang Nationalist Party (KMT) seized power in the mid 1920s.

A detailed look into Russia’s search for self-identity in the ashes of Communism.

Examining the role of terror as a method for political control of Stalin and the Bolshevik party.

Karl Marx had expected his theories on communism to be tested in Germany, the United Kingdom, or some other highly industrialized country. But it was in relatively agricultural Russia that Communists first succeeded in setting up a Communist-controlled government.

In practice, Communism has varied from one Communist country to another. But until the late 1980s, certain basic features of Communism were shared by all Communist countries.

An introduction to the life and times of Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, one of the founders of Russian Communism.

Karl Marx was one of the most influential people of the 20th century.