The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? AUTH-5885663 ISBN13: 9781948523066

ISBN13: 9781948523066

certain agencies broke that order in the fall of 1996 when the star was killed in a barrage of bullets fired by a confidential informant commissioned for just such an act

the serious is lightened with a generous serving of wit and humor

"The Top 25 Most Influential Women of the Civil War" and "The W&A

The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? AUTH-5885663 ISBN13: 9781948523066In 1917 the working class and peasantry of Russia carried out one of the most deep going revolutions in history. Yet within ten years a political counterrevolution was under way. Workers and peasants were driven from power by a privileged bureaucratic social layer whose chief spokeperson was Joseph Stalin. This classic study of the Soviet workers state and its degeneration illuminates the roots of the social and political crisis shaking the countries