Volume 40, Number 20 · December 2, 1993
On the Eve
By Peter B. Reddaway
Figures in a Red Landscape
by Pilar Bonet, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, by Susan Ashe
Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 148 pp., $18.95
The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
by John B. Dunlop
Princeton University Press, 360 pp., $29.95
The Struggle for Russia: Power and Change in the Democratic Revolution
by Ruslan Khasbulatov, edited by Richard Sakwa
Routledge, 270 pp., $29.95
The Morphology of Russian Mentality: A Philosophical Inquiry into Conservatism and Pragmatism
by Vladimir A. Zviglyanich
Edwin Mellen Press (box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092), 318 pp., $79.95
In his recent book The End of the Communist Revolution the historian Robert Daniels expresses some views about the collapse of communism and its aftermath that have become increasingly accepted. First, 'the sequence of victorious democratic break-throughs in the former Communist realm was one of the most extraordinary and, to believers in democratic values, gratifying developments in all of modern history.' Second, the outcome in the former Soviet Union is 'a congeries of feuding ethnic authoritarianisms.' And, finally, 'the record of decolonization on other continents offers few examples to encourage optimism about the political future of the Soviet successor-states.'[1]
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