The author of this book delivered the 1988 Reith Lectures and here he develops his theme and examines in detail the political change taking place in the Soviet Union. The book is informed by Professor Hosking's direct experience of Soviet society and is richly illustrated with anecdotes. His analysis of a traumatised society in which issues of culture, history, the environment, religion and ethnic identity can assume enormous and sometimes explosive significance is an illuminating one, founded as it is on a deep understanding of the USSR's historical roots.
- ISBN10 0674055500
- ISBN13 9780674055506
- Publish Date 1 March 1990 (first published 13 October 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 July 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English