Moscow’s New Elite
Ian Davidson, 19 June 1986
Gorbachev: The Path to Power
by Christian Schmidt-Häuer.
Tauris, 218 pp., £12.95, March 1986,1 85043 015 2 Show More
by Christian Schmidt-Häuer.
Tauris, 218 pp., £12.95, March 1986,
“... keep falling back on restatements of whatever happens to be the current cliché. An example is Paul Dibb’s The Soviet Union: The Incomplete Super-Power, whose thesis is that the USSR is strong in military terms, but weak in all the other ingredients of power – economic, technological, ideological. As far as it goes, the book is rather well ... ”
