Absolutely a great book, one that should be required reading in every high school class. Then there should be a follow-up: viewing the sardonically accurate, and bitterly hilarious, “The Death of Stalin,” which is available for rent at Amazon for $3.95. One of the funniest scenes is when the Politbureau wants to find some doctors to treat the dying Stalin and one of them says, “But where are we going to find one, they’re all in the Gulag?”