Richard Pipes

Polish Sovietology in the Lead-up to the Cold War

After the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, some of the closest study of the new Communist regime and Soviet state was conducted by Polish scholars, whose country had a long history of troubled relations with Russia. Polish scholars had long been studying the Tsarist regime, but the advent of Soviet rule forced major adjustments. Some of the literature that emerged in Poland about the Soviet Union was perceptive, but other works were warped by anti-Semitism and an obsession with alleged Bolshevik-Judeo conspiracies. By the time of World War II, a substantial body of expertise about the USSR had accumulated in Poland. The war and the subsequent establishment of Soviet hegemony largely brought an end to this tradition, which could not truly be revived until after 1989.

The Unfinished Revolution II

The Awakening of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking. Harvard University Press, 208 pp.,

U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of Detente

19.95. Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson. Viking, 450 pp.,

The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism 1917-1923

24.95. Against the Grain by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny. Summit, 263 pp.,

The Russian Revolution

19.95. Memoirs by Andrei Sakharov, translated by Richard Lourie. Alfred A. Knopf, 740 pp., illus.,

Russia Under the Old Regime

29.95. Moscow and Beyond, 1986 to 1989 by Andrei Sakharov, translated by Antonina Bouis. Alfred A. Knopf, 168 pp.,

Property and Freedom

19.95. The New Russians by Hedrick Smith. Random House, 621 pp.,

The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923

24.95. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations by Walter Laqueur. Charles Scribners Sons, 382 pp.,

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

24.95. The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes. Alfred A. Knopf, 944 pp., illus.,

The formation of the Soviet Union

40.00. Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War by W. Bruce Lincoln. Simon and Schuster, 637 pp.,