Decline of an Empire

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The Author: héléne carrére d'Encausse, Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, and head of the section of the USSR in the Center of International Relations of the University of Paris, is recognized as a world authority on the Soviet Union. Born in Paris of Georgián and Polish parentage, she is fluent in Russian-with the pure accent of Leningrád-which has enabled her to move with ease in the Soviet Union and have access to official sources of information not usually available. This extraordinarily documented book for which she received the highly coveted Prix d'Aujourd'hui in Francé in 1978, is written without bias but not without wit. It is by far the most remarkable work to have appeared on what in czarist times was called the "giant with clay feet," and which today constitutes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. * * * PRAISE FROM THE PRESTIGIOUS FRENCH PRESS: Le Figaro "The author, one of the best informed and most astute observers of the Soviet world has... Tovább

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The Author: héléne carrére d'Encausse, Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, and head of the section of the USSR in the Center of International Relations of the University of Paris, is recognized as a world authority on the Soviet Union. Born in Paris of Georgián and Polish parentage, she is fluent in Russian-with the pure accent of Leningrád-which has enabled her to move with ease in the Soviet Union and have access to official sources of information not usually available. This extraordinarily documented book for which she received the highly coveted Prix d'Aujourd'hui in Francé in 1978, is written without bias but not without wit. It is by far the most remarkable work to have appeared on what in czarist times was called the "giant with clay feet," and which today constitutes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. * * * PRAISE FROM THE PRESTIGIOUS FRENCH PRESS: Le Figaro "The author, one of the best informed and most astute observers of the Soviet world has gathered together a coherent mass of facts and figures proving that, no, Moscow has not yet resolved the problem of nationalities." Georges Bortoli. Le Monde "Seen from the outside . . . the Soviet Union appears as an undivided, indivisible, monolithic whole . . . one of the inescapable meríts of Héléne Carrére d'Encausse's book is to pulverize that stereotype. " Jacques Amairic. Les Échos Beyond any doubt this book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the problems of our time. Every statement is documented, and the complexity of the material is matched by the utmost clarity. From it emerges a Soviet Union which is very much alive, very real, and relatively unknown." Vissza