Good used. No doubt an unreliable history of the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent events, but this official account, published in the thick of Stalinist oppression and paranoia is nevertheless revealing for the vitriolic nature of its language: The trials showed that these dregs of humanity, in conjunction with the enemies of the people, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, had been in conspiracy against Lenin ..These Whiteguard pygmies, whose strength was no more than that of a gnat (which begs the question of why they needed to be shot!) These Whiteguard insects forgot that the real masters of the Soviet country were the Soviet people .. These contemptible lackeys of the fascists forgot that the Soviet people had only to move a finger, and not a trace of them would be left.The Soviet court sentenced the Bukharin-Trotsky fiends to be shot. The Soviet people approved the annihilation of the Bukharin-Trotsky gang and passed on to next business. excerpt p. 347-8. 12 chapt. 364pp