A Little History of the Soviet Union

Helmut Altrichter presents the original social revolutionary concepts, the range of political fractionalisation and power struggles, civil war and World War and then in the end – after de-Stalinisation - the farewell to the global revolution and the onward march from reform of the system to its dissolution. Any reader wishing to understand a determining factor in the history of the twentieth century and of the specific phases in the history of the Soviet Union, will find in Altrichter’s book a brilliantly written and superbly documented piece of work.