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 EliseSarotte.
Princeton, 321 pp., £20.95, November 2009,978 0 691 14306 4 Show More
by Mary EliseSarotte.
Princeton, 321 pp., £20.95, November 2009,
“... deep-seated resentment that soon took political form. Much the most exciting of these books is Mary EliseSarotte’s 1989. In contrast to the other authors, Sarotte treats the uprisings and collapses of that year as a prelude to the biggest change of all: ‘the struggle to ... ”
