Russians and the Russian Past
John Barber, 9 November 1989
The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost
by Walter Laqueur.
Unwin Hyman, 325 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 04 440343 7 Show More
by Walter Laqueur.
Unwin Hyman, 325 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
Glasnost in Action: Cultural Renaissance in Russia
by Alec Nove.
Unwin Hyman, 251 pp., £15, September 1989,9780044453406 Show More
by Alec Nove.
Unwin Hyman, 251 pp., £15, September 1989,
Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution
by R.W. Davies.
Macmillan, 232 pp., £29.50, July 1989,0 333 49741 4 Show More
by R.W. Davies.
Macmillan, 232 pp., £29.50, July 1989,
Beyond Perestroika: The Future of Gorbachev’s USSR
by Ernest Mandel, translated by Gus Fagan.
Verso, 214 pp., £34.95, May 1989,9780860912231 Show More
by Ernest Mandel, translated by Gus Fagan.
Verso, 214 pp., £34.95, May 1989,
Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform
by Padma Desai.
Tauris, 138 pp., £14.95, July 1989,1 85043 141 8 Show More
by Padma Desai.
Tauris, 138 pp., £14.95, July 1989,
“... Why this should be and what the prospects are for reform of the Soviet economy is the subject of Padma Desai’s book. As an introduction to the subject, it is a model of lucidity. It has the merit of not prescribing ideal remedies for problems which are easy to solve from an armchair thousands of miles away, but instead tries to understand the logic ... ”