Mary Ellen’s Reviews > Lenin for Beginners > Status Update

I’m sure learning a lot. Most of what I knew about Russian history before this year was from watching (and not really understanding) Doctor Zhivago as a teenager, Fiddler on the Roof, the cartoon Anastasia (What? Rasputin wasn’t an evil
sorcerer who could remove parts of his body and communicate with bats and bugs?), and some other random historical fiction novels. I’m connecting a lot of dots now!