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Pros
Exhaustively researched and well threaded together. The only negative thing i would say is that it's a little tiring to read.
Anne applebaum is one of the foremost authorities on post wwii soviet and polish history. Fareed zakaria often has her as a guest on gps whenever topics involve european politics, history and sociology.
Anne applebaum writes lightly with a sense of humour and irony. Produces a number of short and iconic sentences to bring issues to the point.
Cons
Appelbaum is so bias against the soviet union that she makes the red army and soviet union sound worse than the *. Ex-* like bandera seem to have simply disappeared in 1945.
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Now taking every country into account would produce a volume the size of an encyclopedia and present numerous challenges in ter... Read More
The one entitled ‘homo sovieticus’ deals with the attempt to socially engineer every resident from childhood to old age to fit ... Read More
With the large number of reviews here i cannot add much
And britain were allies during the second world war with the u
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Applebaum is a great historian who writes as well as she researches
Competitiveness
Only a fraction of the history of becoming of the ussr
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soviet, eastern, union, communist and many. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 987 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 11 2022.
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Only a fraction of the history of becoming of the ussr
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Current events in former soviet countries and the middle east prove history does indeed repeat itself when society ignores the truth and or promotes revisionary facts
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However i am very disappointed that the book ends rather abruptly in 1956
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I was hoping to get a history of what happened to result in the fall of the berlin wall in 1989
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I should have read the title more carefully it does say it covers the period between 194456
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The state is not god although it may well become the devil
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But she is not sanguine about this she writes that before a nation can be rebuilt its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place how its institutions were undermined how its language was twisted how its people were manipulated
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They need to know particular details not general theories and they need to hear individual stories not generalizations about the masses
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