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Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union

Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union

by ScottShane (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

    $18.34
Synopsis

A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be regarded as one of the essential works on the fall of the Soviet Union. -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 335
 Edition: 1st Elephant Paperback Ed
 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
Published: Dec 1994
ISBN 10: 1566630991
ISBN 13: 9781566630993

Media Reviews
Accessible and absorbing. * The Historian *
Well documented...a readable account. * The New York Times *
Convincing and powerful. -- Nicholas Daniloff, former Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, now director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern Unive
Shane's book is reportage at its bestoan insightful blend of anecdote, observation, biographical sketch, statistics, and history. This is a vivid, first-class eyewitness description and analysis of the sudden demise of Soviet communism. -- Albert Resis, Emeritus Professor of Russian History, Northern Illinois University; editor, Molotov Remembers
A critical book to understanding the era...Scott Shane tells the story of the way the modern information age helped destroy the last pillars of communism, and he tells it with grace, sympathy, and intelligence. -- David Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb
Author Bio
Scott Shane was the Baltimore Sun's Moscow correspondent from 1988 to 1991. A graduate of Williams College and Oxford University, he also studied at Leningrad State University. He is now a special project reporter for the Sun and lives in Baltimore.