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Once again, Laqueur, the author of numerous books and articles on Communist affairs and other aspects of contemporary history, tells us much that is truly worth knowing about a topic of genuine importance. -Commentary The Dream That Failed...offers an impressive display of Laqueur's knowledge and intellectual powers. -The New Leader Laqueur offers a measured and judicious assessment of how we saw the Soviet Union, and how the Soviets saw themselves. -Wilson Library Bulletin An important, polemic work...this should provoke overdue self-examination among observers of the ex-USSR. For Soviet studies collections. -Library Journal Wide-ranging, learned, and full of the insights of a lifetime of scholarship. -Kirkus Reviews Once again, Laqueur, the author of numerous books and articles on Communist affairs and other aspects of contemporary history, tells us much that is truly worth knowing about a topic of genuine importance. -Commentary

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Walter Laqueur as been hailed as ""one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history"" (New York Times Book Review), and ""one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field,""(Journal of Modern History). His most recent study of the Russian extreme right was described as ""a model to study Russia"" (American Historical Review). Walter Laqueur was for twenty-five years the director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London. He is editor of the Journal of Contemporary History and serves as chairman of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. His books, which have been translated into many languagues, include Black Hundred, Russia and Germany, The Long Road to Freedom, The Fate of the Revolution, Terrorism, and most recently an autobiography, Thursday's Child has Far to Go.

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