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Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. "Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be regarded as one of the essential works on the fall of the Soviet Union." -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times.
Book Details
- Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1995
- Pages: 335
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.90in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781566630993
- Categories: • Russia - General• Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism• World - General
About the Author
Scott Shane was the Baltimore Sun's Moscow correspondent from 1988 to 1991. A graduate of Williams College and Oxford University, he also studied at Leningrad State University. He is now a special project reporter for the Sun and lives in Baltimore.
Praise for this book
Accessible and absorbing.
Well documented...a readable account.
Convincing and powerful.
Shane's book is reportage at its bestóan insightful blend of anecdote, observation, biographical sketch, statistics, and history. This is a vivid, first-class eyewitness description and analysis of the sudden demise of Soviet communism.
A critical book to understanding the era...Scott Shane tells the story of the way the modern information age helped destroy the last pillars of communism, and he tells it with grace, sympathy, and intelligence.