Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing

Although the interviews presented on this book are interesting, I found the comments of the writer detracted from the book immensely. The author, without fail, will always take it upon himself to state how awful things would soon become under Stalin. It seems as if the author is deathly afraid of being viewed as a Stalinist, and as a result must take every opportunity to state otherwise. Ironically, the actual words of the interviewees provided a more realistic, and far more interesting window into the times. If the book consisted mostly of interviews, rather than the words of the author, intent on discrediting the Soviet state whenever possible, I feel it would be an incredibly interesting book. However this is not the case. The author is clearly not an academic, historian, or even anyone very familiar with the time. This leads the majority of his commentary to be oversimplified, and in some cases even incorrect. In short, an excellent idea was sullied by a poor execution