Lev Kamenev was the first one who warned about the budding cult of the political leader in the Bolshevik state; he also wrote the introduction to the first publication in Soviet Russia of Niccolo Machiavelli's works. Kamenev was repressed, and the publication of the Machiavelli's works was stopped. This book about Machiavelli is written by Fedor Burlatskii (b. 1927), speechwriter and political adviser to several soviet leaders. He shows that tyranny and dictatorship has not changed in the last five centuries and, as it was after Caesar Borgia, it leaves after itself a corrupt society where an honest man is doomed to die. Read more
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