Three Whys of the Russian Revolution Book

Essentially one long rant provided with no accompanying sources or footnotes and written with a bizarre combination of smugness and bitterness. Pipes lauds it over the collapse of the Soviet Union yet also seeks to shut down any 'revisionist' historians that disagree with his apparently unpopular theories. At one point Pipes describes these historians' 'disgust with America's role in Vietnam and its allegedly provocative pursuit of the Cold War'. Having recently read Vincent Bevins' 'The Jakarta Method' about the extent to which the US intervened in nearly every democratic process in South America and supported the mass slaughter of millions in Indonesia the use of the word 'allegedly' only proves either how deluded or psychotic this former national security advisor to Reagan was.

You can really tell this work was written following Fukuyama's proclamation of 'the end of history'; Pipes intends to hammer excess nails into the coffin of the Soviet Union, whilst simultaneously dancing a jig on its grave before a quick victory lap around the cemetery.