What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor's Guide

by John White and Robert Conquest

Book Overview

What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor's Guide This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812829859
• ISBN13: 9780812829853
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Stein and Day
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Cold War relic....

I almost bought this as a kid back in the 80s, forgot, and came across it recently. Some have dismissed this as right wing, Cold War paranoia but Conquest is an expert on the former Soviet Union, particularly the Stalin era. His "Stalin-Breaker of Nations" is the book I recommend to friends as a short introduction to Stalin. While in hindsight it seems that an actual military conquest by the Soviet Union of the US was implausible, Conquest draws on what happened in Soviet occupied countries to paint a bleak, hypothetical picture. The most fascinating chapter involves how different professions would exist (or not) under Soviet occupation.

A "Worst Case Scenario".......

A scenario, which, thank God, never happened, "What to do when the Russians Come" is a "how-to" guide for surviving occupation until the inevitable fall of Communism. Thank God, again, that said fall occurred BEFORE we needed the valuable advice in this book!