Rating level for Lisitsin's Key Elements of Chess Tactics?

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Key Elements of Chess Tactics and Key Elements of Chess Strategy are translations of a book by Georgy Lisitsin originally published in Russian in one volume ("Strategy and Tactics of Chess", 1950s). Apparently, it's one of those "legendary manuals in the Soviet chess school".

I had a brief look at the excerpt provided by Quality Chess and it's probably above my level. For the example positions at the start of chapter 2, I didn't find any of the solutions (at least beyond suspecting what the first move in Alatortsev – Goglidze on page 154 would be). For the six exercises on page 317, I found the solution only for positions 1 and 3.

My rating is just above 1200. I would be interested in the views of higher-rated players about the recommended rating band for this book.

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NM Elijah Logozar's review on Amazon asks, "Who is the target audience?":

"In some ways, I get the impression that the author is writing as if this is your first tactics book, explaining the themes and basics. A lot of these puzzles are only a couple of moves long, and that's consistent with the idea of a tactics primer for beginners, although I really didn't get that impression for a lot of these. Is a beginners tactics book going to include numerous endgame studies that are 10-15+ moves long, and improvements on world champion games, with solutions sometimes extending 5-10 moves deep? (...)"

I have a similar issue with The Soviet Chess Primer by Ilya Maizelis, which I'm currently reading, and which Logozar also mentions in his review.

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