Firstly, I had absolutely no interest reading this book. When our FSEM professor said that this was our last read, I felt no excitement whatsoever. I wanted to move on from this and not read it at all. Second, when trying to do research on this book, there’s not much that comes up for it. There aren’t many reviews or summary articles you can find for it, so I assume this is not a popular book.
There are many reasons as to why I had absolutely no interest in reading this book. For one, it’s so long and boring. Second, again there’s no much information online about it so how am I supposed to get a preview to this book?
Onto the content of the book: again I’m going to be honest here, I did not read the full text. I just felt it dragged on and there wasn’t much that intrigued me. It talks a lot about how people only normally hear about the Soviet side from American and British textbooks.
Right off the bat of the text, it talks about how greatest power would to seize territory and enslave people of other countries/dominate the world. I see a hard connection between this and today’s Russian country. Russia is trying to take over Ukraine and Poland as I am writing this, so could we say a third world war is coming? It says how in the first world war that the “Hitlerite Germany and militarist Japan wanted to take out the Soviet union and enslave the people.” From what I’ve always learned in history classes, the Soviet Union worked aside with Germany and Japan? So I don’t see how that makes much sense. This entire text just has a bitter tone to it and seems very butt-hurt about the way the second world war went.