Gerhard SchnehenGerhard Schnehen was born in the district of Cuxhaven, Northern Germany, on March 18, 1949, into a family of farmers. He attended grammar school in the town of Bremerhaven. He first studied law in Goettingen, near Hanover, then to become a teacher, h studied English and politics in the same town. He later worked as a secondary modern school teacher at a comprehensive school near Bochum. Due to health issues, he was sent into early retirement at the age of 60. Today he writes books on the history of communism, dealing especially with the root causes of the downfall of communism in the late eighties and early nineties. Schnehen wrote a Stalin biography which was published by Zambon Verlag, Frankfurt am Main in August this year. The same publishing house also published Die Ära der Perestroika. Read More Read Less