The Awakening Of The Soviet Union Enlarged Edition (reith Lectures) [Paperback]

A long-time student of the Soviet Union with many personal contacts there, Geoffrey Hosking provides a unique perspective on the rapid changes the country is experiencing. Other books have focused on the political changes taking place under Gorbachev; Hoskings lively analysis illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that have created the needand openness for sweeping political and economic change.The Awakening of the Soviet Uniondoes more to help English speakers understand these changes than any of the dozens of books on the subject published in the past five years.The most useful and reliable guide to the chaos of the current Soviet Union&[Hoskings] grasp of the overall picture of the Soviet Union and of its history is solid and uncluttered.Among the most enlightening and informative accounts of what has already been one of the most amazing peaceful revolutions in modern times&[A] fine study.Geoffrey Hosking has&produced a series of almost timeless essays on the deeper currents of change and reform within the Soviet system.One of the world's preeminent scholars of Russian History, Geoffrey Hosking illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that created the need--and openness--for the political and economic changes that occurred in the late 1980's.