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Walter Laqueur as been hailed as'one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history'in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him'one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field.'Over a span of three decades, in books ranging from Russia and Germany to the recent Black Hundred, he has won a reputation as a major writer and a provocative thinker. Now he turns his attention to the greatest enigma of our time: the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. In The Dream that Failed, Laqueur offers an authoritative assessment of the Soviet era--from the triumph of Lenin to the fall of Gorbachev. In the last three years, decades of conventional wisdom about the U.S.S.R. have been swept away, while a flood of evidence from Russian archives demands new thinking about old assumptions. Laqueur rises to the challenge with a critical inquiry conducted on a grand scale. He shows why the Bolsheviks won the struggle for power in 1917; how they captured the commitment of a young generation of Russians; why the idealism faded as Soviet power grew; how the system ultimately collapsed; and why Western experts hav

Author

Walter Laqueur

Publisher

Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4314

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195089783

Subjects

History, Science, Engineering

Rating

3.9 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13