Title: Cold War Political Pamphlet, not a serious reasearch
Review: This is a very shallow, biased piece of Cold War style journalism disguised as a historical research. The book is full of ungrounded generalizations and direct factual lies (I cannot call them mistakes, since the author must be familiar with archival data that give evidence to the contrary). All this is is tailored with one obvious goal in mind: to present the USSR in the worst possible light, demonise its leaders, slander its people, and discredit the socialist idea as such. You will know and understand less about Soviet Union after you have read this book than you do already. Do not waste your time, read serious, balanced scholarship instead.
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