The dream that failed : reflections on the Soviet Union / Walter Laqueur.
The dream that failed : reflections on the Soviet Union / Walter Laqueur.
The dream that failed : reflections on the Soviet Union / Walter Laqueur.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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T0367112
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English
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Physical content
ix, 231 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The Age of Enthusiasm -- 2. 1917: The Russia We Lost? -- 3. The Fall of the Soviet Union -- 4. Totalitarianism -- 5. Sovietology: An Epitaph (I) -- 6. Sovietology: An Epitaph (II) -- 7. How Many Victims? -- 8. The Nationalist Revival -- 9. East Germany: A Case Study -- 10. Conclusion.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1994.
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"Only now, in the rubble of this lost empire, is it possible to gain a deeper understanding of the Soviet regime, its early achievements, its crimes and its ultimate disaster. In The Dream that Failed, the result of years of research and reflection, Walter Laqueur sheds fresh light on a central episode in our turbulent century."--BOOK JACKET.
He demonstrates how Communist society stagnated during the 1960s and '70s, while the economy wobbled to the brink; how Western observers, from academic experts to CIA analysts, made wildly optimistic estimates of Moscow's economic and political strength. Just weeks before the U.S.S.R. disappeared from the earth, some scholars were confidently predi...
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The dream that failed : reflections on the Soviet Union / Walter Laqueur.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-225) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 947.084/85.
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T0367112
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74VK76Dy7LR3
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0195089782 (alk. paper) :
9780195089783 (alk. paper) :
9780195089783 (alk. paper)
0195089782 (alk. paper)
9780195102826 (pbk.)
0195102827 (pbk.)
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947.084
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991022742529702626
