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Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman
by Susanne Schattenberg, translated by John Heath.
I.B. Tauris, 484 pp., £30, November 2021,978 1 83860 638 1 Show More
by Susanne Schattenberg, translated by John Heath.
I.B. Tauris, 484 pp., £30, November 2021,
“... states to use armed force against any nation threatening to leave the ‘socialist camp’. Susanne Schattenberg sets out to correct and sometimes reverse these impressions. ‘I expected to be working on a Stalinist, a hardliner, an architect of domestic and foreign policies of repression,’ she writes in the introduction to this book. But ... ”