Ideologies and Illusions: Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Solzhenitsyn

by Adam B. Ulam

Book Overview

In a book of keen perception and vast sweep, a foremost scholar examines one hundred years of Russian revolutionary thought and the men who shaped and were caught up in it. Adam Ulam displays an unusual ability to penetrate the core of the Soviet mind as it evolved and was encapsulated in history. Why did the Russians sign a treaty with Hitler? Why did they build a Berlin Wall, rattle missiles, and then sign a nuclear-test-ban treaty with President...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674443101
• ISBN13: 9780674443105
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.5"