The Awakening of the Soviet Union does more to help English speakers understand these changes than any of the dozens of books on the subject published in the past five years.
   --Anthony Astrachan, The Nation

The most useful and reliable guide to the chaos of the current Soviet Union...[Hosking's] grasp of the overall picture of the Soviet Union and of its history is solid and uncluttered.
   --The Economist

Among the most enlightening and informative accounts of what has already been one of the most amazing peaceful revolutions in modern times...[A] fine study.
   --Adam B. Ulam, New York Times Book Review

Geoffrey Hosking has...produced a series of almost timeless essays on the deeper currents of change and reform within the Soviet system.
   --Martin Walker, Washington Post Book World

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