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Article: Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 27, 1984
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ROBERT MASSIE is for many reasons one of the most interesting men in America. He is the author of Nicholas and Alexandra, a book rich and readable and timelessly informative about the lives of that strange and inept couple who presided over the liquidation of the dynastic era in the Soviet Union, and the author also of Peter the Great, a biography of the titanic figure who founded modern Russia and created St. Petersburg so to speak as an act of royal will. Both books won every prize in sight and deserved to do so, while their quiet and self-effacing author, and his studious and talented wife, Suzanne, continue to pursue their studies of the Russian character, transformed ...