From revolution and Lenin to Stalin’s Great Terror, from World War II to Gorbachev’s perestroika policies, this is a lively, authoritative distillation of seventy-five years of communist rule and the collapse of an empire. Here is an irresistible entree to a sweeping history. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of the Soviet Union continues to fascinate us and influence global politics. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. The story of an empire made and an empire undone by one of the world’s leading authorities on Soviet Russia.
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