They’re just not ready
Neal Ascherson: Gorbachev Betrayed, 7 January 2010
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
by Stephen Kotkin, with Jan Gross.
Modern Library, 240 pp., $24, October 2009,978 0 679 64276 3 Show More
by Stephen Kotkin, with Jan Gross.
Modern Library, 240 pp., $24, October 2009,
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen.
Weidenfeld, 451 pp., £25, July 2009,978 0 297 85223 0 Show More
by Victor Sebestyen.
Weidenfeld, 451 pp., £25, July 2009,
There Is No Freedom without Bread: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought Down Communism
by Constantine Pleshakov.
Farrar, Straus, 289 pp., $26, November 2009,978 0 374 28902 7 Show More
by Constantine Pleshakov.
Farrar, Straus, 289 pp., $26, November 2009,
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
by Mary Elise Sarotte.
Princeton, 321 pp., £20.95, November 2009,978 0 691 14306 4 Show More
by Mary Elise Sarotte.
Princeton, 321 pp., £20.95, November 2009,
“... away.) And most of them, to be fair, are at least striving to find some new and striking analysis. Victor Sebestyen’s book, although it has sharp perceptions, is not really a new wide-angle survey of why these revolutions happened or what the year’s consequences were. Instead, he provides a detailed and useful narrative, country by country rather than ... ”
