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"A magnificent novel that sweeps from the Russia of the Revolution through the horrors of the Purges and the Second World War, to the inner tensions and complex realities of the Soviet Union today. A renowned author, Harrison Salisbury, whose unsurpassed intimate knowledge of modern Russia make him uniquely able to create one of the most electrifying and inspiring reading experiences of our time."--Goodreads
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Argues that Russian nationalism presents a serious alternative to declining Soviet ideology and that the USSR may revert to authoritarian isolationism. Rejects the distinction made by U.S. Sovietologists between "good" Orthodox nationalists and "bad" atheist "National Bolsheviks". Russian nationalism has always been dominated by authoritarian trends tending to fascism. Traces the development of Slavophile ideology since the 19th century which, under...
11) Memoirs
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Sakharov, the leader of the Soviet dissenters and a world-renowned human rights activist, recounts his life.
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Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak...
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