Title: an expensive door stop
Product review: Eley is one of the more prominent radical leftists at a radical left university so you should not expect much balance in his writing. But I did try to get through this book with an open mind and must say that about half of the book has some interesting historical events in it. The problem is that most of these events are shaded and slanted in such a way as to make this book useless to anyone who has studied history and historical movements. Eley is a classic radical who really has no appreciation for competing thoughts or ideas other than his leftist view of the world. The fact that the Soviet Union kind of falls off a cliff in the book when its obvious failures killed this evil philosophy and economic system is most telling. But he will continue to write this kind of drivel, pounding nonsense into the kids in his classrooms, and make a lot of money from hard working taxpayers for doing so.
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