Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991 by Mark B Smith has an overall rating of Rave based on 6 book reviews.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Date
July 7, 2026
A revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.
Stephen Kotkin's masterful multivolume biography of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin offers lessons for our own time.
Mark B. Smith taucht in die Lebenswelten der sowjetischen Bürger ein: überfüllte Metrozüge, leere Geschäfte, enge Wohnungen – und…
This brilliant account of attempts by the old guard to take back control captures the ludicrousness of it all beautifully
A book to provoke discussion, but some of the author’s potential audience may also be inured to his opinions
Immediately after the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed, during the brief ‘end of history’ period, there were…
In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir by Francis Fukuyama has an overall rating of Positive based on 6 book reviews.
