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Reviewed on December 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
In this timely look at the former Soviet Union, British travel writer Maclean (Stalin's Nose), goes back to Russia and areas of the former U.S.S.R. to discover what went wrong after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later. He describes the initial euphoria at newfound freedoms, the hard times afterward as the "USSR imploded," and the lack of fre...Log In or Sign Up to Read More