Synopses & Reviews
Review
"The late Dmitri Volkogonov was a mediocre general and a worse historian, but he had one supreme advantage: both Gorbachev and Yeltsin allowed him into the innermost archival sanctum, and therefore we have to read his books. This last one contains no surprises and nothing really new, but the tidbits and moderately juicy morsels from archives still closed to ordinary researchers make it interesting. All in all it adds up to yet another demonstration of the tendency of bureaucracies to advance unscrupulous timeservers to the top." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-556) and index.