The Washington Post, March 22nd, 1998
A HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA By Robert Service Harvard. 654 pp. $29.95 Reviewed by Dusko Doder, author of "Shadows and Whispers: Power Politics Inside the Kremlin From Brezhnev to Gorbachev." It is no accident, I think, that it is hard to find a good history of modern Russia. For most of this century it was almost impossible to go to Russia, and once there it was impossible to carry out proper investigations, so a historian's ideas on the subject had to be drawn largely from books and newspaper articles written in the midst of a long and bloody battle between two world views -- capita...
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