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Article: Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Policy, 1917-1991.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- January 11, 1993
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Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991 By R. Craig Nation Cornell. 341 pp. $29.95.
WAS COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union in 1991 in fact a "new revolution,"as the leaders of the upheaval and their admirers have repeatedly maintained? If so, what kind of system were they actually revolting against, as opposed to the illusions the official ideology had so long nourished? More important, what kind of outcome should we expect, or possibly encourage? These questions leap to mind when we think about past and present events in the former Communist realm. The three books under review approach them from the different perspectives of their ...
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