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Article: Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism.(Review)
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- The New Leader
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- December 13, 1999
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Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism By Paul Hollander Yale. 368 pp. $35.00.
THIS IS A GEM of a book. Using the archives that have been opened and the memoirs prominent figures have written since the abortive August 1991 coup against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, it examines the unraveling of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union from a highly unusual perspective. In the process, it scrutinizes as well the decline and fall of the Soviet clones in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and, to a lesser degree, the other so-called satellite states.
Paul Hollander, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, is ...