The Resource Age of delirium : the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, David Satter
Age of delirium : the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, David Satter
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- Summary
- Feared and respected as one of the world's two great superpowers, the Soviet Union throughout the final twenty years of its life was a model of state-organized delusion. As David Satter shows in powerful detail, the leaders of the Kremlin found that when their carefully constricted facade fell apart in the late 1980s, there was nothing to prop up the crumbling ruins. Satter's book demonstrates compellingly how the Soviet people were forced to live a gigantic lie. During nearly two decades of reporting for the Financial Times and Reader's Digest, he interviewed Soviet citizens all across the vast country, not just the dissidents and party apparatchiks in Moscow but ordinary men and women. Traveling with him from coal mines and farms to bureaucratic reception halls to the nightmarish wards of punitive psychiatric hospitals to railroad stations where victims of the Communist system set up camp, the reader witnesses how an entire state was constituted on the basis of a fraudulent version of reality. In the Soviet Union, lying - at the grocery and the factory as well as the government office - was universal and obligatory, and Westerners were seldom able to penetrate the perplexing mosaic of wishful thinking and denial that camouflaged a brutal regime
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 424 pages
- Contents
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- The coup
- The ideology
- Gorbachev and the party
- Truth seekers
- The workers
- The economy
- The border
- The KGB
- Internal policy
- Glasnost
- Homo Sovieticus
- The roots of fanaticism
- Ukraine
- Religion
- Isbn
- 9780394529349
- Label
- Age of delirium : the decline and fall of the Soviet Union
- Title
- Age of delirium
- Title remainder
- the decline and fall of the Soviet Union
- Statement of responsibility
- David Satter
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Feared and respected as one of the world's two great superpowers, the Soviet Union throughout the final twenty years of its life was a model of state-organized delusion. As David Satter shows in powerful detail, the leaders of the Kremlin found that when their carefully constricted facade fell apart in the late 1980s, there was nothing to prop up the crumbling ruins. Satter's book demonstrates compellingly how the Soviet people were forced to live a gigantic lie. During nearly two decades of reporting for the Financial Times and Reader's Digest, he interviewed Soviet citizens all across the vast country, not just the dissidents and party apparatchiks in Moscow but ordinary men and women. Traveling with him from coal mines and farms to bureaucratic reception halls to the nightmarish wards of punitive psychiatric hospitals to railroad stations where victims of the Communist system set up camp, the reader witnesses how an entire state was constituted on the basis of a fraudulent version of reality. In the Soviet Union, lying - at the grocery and the factory as well as the government office - was universal and obligatory, and Westerners were seldom able to penetrate the perplexing mosaic of wishful thinking and denial that camouflaged a brutal regime
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Satter, David
- Dewey number
- 947.084
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DK266
- LC item number
- .S267 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Soviet Union
- Zusammenbruch
- Auflösung
- Label
- Age of delirium : the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, David Satter
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- rdacarrier
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- Contents
- The coup -- The ideology -- Gorbachev and the party -- Truth seekers -- The workers -- The economy -- The border -- The KGB -- Internal policy -- Glasnost -- Homo Sovieticus -- The roots of fanaticism -- Ukraine -- Religion
- Control code
- 33078656
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 424 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394529349
- Lccn
- 95038592
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
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- (OCoLC)33078656
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- Age of delirium : the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, David Satter
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- nc
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- txt
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- Contents
- The coup -- The ideology -- Gorbachev and the party -- Truth seekers -- The workers -- The economy -- The border -- The KGB -- Internal policy -- Glasnost -- Homo Sovieticus -- The roots of fanaticism -- Ukraine -- Religion
- Control code
- 33078656
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 424 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394529349
- Lccn
- 95038592
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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