![]() It's good to gain a more qualitative perspective of the Unions history. This book is essentially the academic 'gossip' (in a good way) of what went down in every single Union republic, plus autonomous Russian republics. None of the other books do that, as they seem to speak of the Union in generalist terms, often concentrating on macro developments like foreign policy or the five year plans. I mainly like reading about economic history of the Soviet Union, but what this book does is give a fascinating narrative to the internal political evolution and powerplays of the Union. However, I believe this is just because I am not sufficiently acquainted with the leaders in question, so I do not want it to cloud my judgement when ratings this fantastic book. One minute the author is speaking of one leader then the next of another, then back to the first one. ![]() I was going to give a 4 because I felt at times there was a bit of hoping in terms of leaders. A really comprehensive experience of the Union republics of the Soviet Union. ![]()
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