Soviet realities : culture and politics from Stalin to Gorbachev
General Information
- Author/Creator
- Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018
- Language
- English.
- Published
- New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c1990.
- Physical Description
- xix, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
- Subject
- Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Bibliographic Information
- Responsibility
- Walter Laqueur.
- Content
- I. Glasnost and its future 1. Glasnost and its limits -- II. Russians right and left. 2. Pamyat, or Glasnost's ghosts -- 3. Lermontov, os a plot exposed -- 4. Buying books in Moscow -- 5. Who killed Kirov? -- 6. The children of the Arbat -- 7. The Russian New Left -- III. Before Gorbachev came. 8. Stalin and the Cult of the Individual -- 9. The strange lives of Nikolai Skoblin: some origins of World War II -- 10. Is there now, or has ever been, such a thing as totalitarianism? -- 11. U.S.-Soviet relations: the darkest hour -- 12. Thoughts on reform in Russia -- IV. Cloaks, bombs, and daggers. 13. Reflections on terrorism -- 14. Terrorists and spies -- 15. Thrillers East and West: John Le Carré -- 16. Thrillers East and West: Julian Semyonov.
- Library Special Collection
- HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection
- ISBN
- 0887383025
Holdings
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Book | OSA Archivum Library | General collection | 947.085/4 LAQ | | General Stacks | - |
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