The Whole Shoe-Bang.("Khrushchev: The Man and His Era")(Book Review)

National Review | March 24, 2003| | Copyright

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, by William Taubman(Norton, 768 pp., $35)

The further Soviet Communism recedes into history, the more bewildering the whole experiment appears. Portentously claiming to be changing human nature, the Soviet Union and its satellites in fact were a mechanism for self-impoverishment, political malfunctioning, and secret-police brutality. How could intelligent people have collaborated in this man-made disaster maintained in the face of reality itself?

Lenin and Stalin had the power to deceive the masses and compel obedience ...

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