ComradeOm
16th July 2009, 16:18
Here's the story, after a screw up by Amazon I find myself with a spare copy of The Soviet Century (Hardback) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soviet-Century-Moshe-Lewin/dp/1844670163/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247756744&sr=1-1) by Moshe Lewin. Rather than return the book I'm happy to take the financial hit and send it on to a comrade for free
If you're interested then pm me your name and address. It'll cost you absolutely nothing to receive. The first person to send me this info will probably get it but I'll not guarantee anything. Because I'll be taking all the costs, including packaging, this offer is only open to those in the UK or Europe. Apologies if that rules you out
As for the book itself, its not a serious academic work, and I disagree with the author on several point, but it provides a good overview of the Soviet state with an emphasis on the period 1924-1985. Certainly it would serve as a decent introduction to the history of the USSR and particularly those later, more neglected decades. Lewin is a Western academic so don't expect any explicit revisionist/anti-revisionist bullshit. Definitely worth a read
(I stuck this in History rather than Literature because I figured it would be of more interest to this crowd)
If you're interested then pm me your name and address. It'll cost you absolutely nothing to receive. The first person to send me this info will probably get it but I'll not guarantee anything. Because I'll be taking all the costs, including packaging, this offer is only open to those in the UK or Europe. Apologies if that rules you out
As for the book itself, its not a serious academic work, and I disagree with the author on several point, but it provides a good overview of the Soviet state with an emphasis on the period 1924-1985. Certainly it would serve as a decent introduction to the history of the USSR and particularly those later, more neglected decades. Lewin is a Western academic so don't expect any explicit revisionist/anti-revisionist bullshit. Definitely worth a read
(I stuck this in History rather than Literature because I figured it would be of more interest to this crowd)