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Title: There are better books on Soviet history
Review: One of the things that really frustrated me about this book is the fact that the authors do not use citation. Many questionable passages in the book were of interest to me, but alas I could not research the background or validity of those passages. Furthermore, from time to time, the authors' writings seemed ideological and one-sided; certain sentances burried throughout the text had no apparent purpose but to denigrade USSR. There are better and more objective books than this one - Hosking's Russia and the Russians, for example. Better yet, try to learn history from the original sources as much as possible.
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