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Soviet History - The First Socialist Society: A History of The Soviet Union From Within. By Geoffrey Hosking. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. 527 pp. Figures. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $29.50, cloth. - Russia: A History of The Soviet Period. By Woodford McClellan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986. xi, 387 pp. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Mark Von Hagen
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Slavic Review , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 118 - 122
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1987

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References

1. In addition to the two works under review, see also MacKenzie, David and Curran, Michael W., A History of the Soviet Union (Chicago: Dorsey, 1972, 1982, 1986)Google Scholar, and Thompson, John, Russia and the Soviet Union (New York: Macmillan, 1985 Google Scholar.

2. For examples of the last generation of textbooks, see Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., A History of Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963, 1968, 1976, 1984)Google Scholar; Treadgold, Donald, Twentiethcentury Russia (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1959, 1964, 1972, 1976, 1981)Google Scholar; and von Rauch, Georg, A History of Soviet Russia (New York: Praeger, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1964)Google Scholar.

3. For an example of an insightful émigré contribution, see Nekrich, Alexander and Heller, Mikhail, Utopia in Power (New York: Summit, 1986 Google Scholar. This textbook deserves a separate review.

4. Haslam, Jonathan, Soviet Foreign Policy, 1930–1933 (London: Macmillan, 1983 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.