Monumental and still highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok’s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective
Financial Times
Immensely scholarly, and its sweep is considerable... Zubok has complete command of his narrative, based on a deep knowledge of his subject
Telegraph
Always sensible... Make(s) comprehensible a Russian perspective on a key question of 20th-century history that we generally see only from the American side
Sheila Fitzpatrick, London Review of Books
Monumental and still highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok’s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective
Financial Times
Immensely scholarly, and its sweep is considerable... Zubok has complete command of his narrative, based on a deep knowledge of his subject
Telegraph
Always sensible... Make(s) comprehensible a Russian perspective on a key question of 20th-century history that we generally see only from the American side
Sheila Fitzpatrick, London Review of Books
Monumental and still highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok’s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective
Financial Times
Immensely scholarly, and its sweep is considerable... Zubok has complete command of his narrative, based on a deep knowledge of his subject
Telegraph
Always sensible... Make(s) comprehensible a Russian perspective on a key question of 20th-century history that we generally see only from the American side