One of the world's preeminent scholars of Russian History, Geoffrey Hosking illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that created the need--and openness--for the political and economic changes that occurred in the late 1980's.

Geoffrey Hosking is retired Professor of Russian History at the University College London.

Read More by Geoffrey Hosking:

• Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Enlarged Edition
• The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition
• Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917
• Russia and the Russians: A History
• The Awakening of the Soviet Union, First edition
• Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union