The best one can hope for
John Lloyd, 22 October 1992
Soviet Politics, 1917-1991
by Mary McAuley.
Oxford, 132 pp., £20, September 1992,0 19 878066 4 Show More
by Mary McAuley.
Oxford, 132 pp., £20, September 1992,
What went wrong with perestroika?
by Marshall Goldman.
Norton, 282 pp., £12.95, January 1992,0 393 03071 7 Show More
by Marshall Goldman.
Norton, 282 pp., £12.95, January 1992,
Boris Yeltsin: A Political Biography
by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova.
Weidenfeld, 320 pp., £18.99, April 1992,0 297 81252 1 Show More
by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova.
Weidenfeld, 320 pp., £18.99, April 1992,
“... not only scientifically given but dictated both the needs and the methods of their satisfaction. Mary McAuley’s slim primer on Soviet politics, a very slightly altered version of the series of lectures she gives to first-year students on her course in Oxford, is a clear exposition of 74 years of Soviet power, as good a choice as any for the reader ... ”