His entry begins: I am a bizarre reader. As a rule, I am trying to read something very different from what I am writing/researching at that time. Over the last three months I have been working on a book on Vladimir Lenin, which is my third monograph. Of course, I had to read through 55 vols. of Lenin's complete works (in Russian). Yet I cannot say "I read Lenin." Rather I should modestly say, I did my research on him. What I read was different.[read on]Read an excerpt from The Anti-Imperial Choice and learn more about the book at the Yale University Press website.
Learn more about Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern at his faculty webpage.
Writers Read: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.
--Marshal Zeringue
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