The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world. -- David Remnick, The New York Review of Books In Martin Malia, the Soviet Union had one of its most acute observers. With this book, it may well have fo...
