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The book is rich in insight and an absorbing read. John Plender, Financial Times

Trust: A history ranges widely and digs deeply into the historical record, social theory and even the human heart ... Hosking's short, sharp book is no just-so story, explaining away our present discontents ... [He] urges us to be more professional, more loyal, more dependable. Trust him: he's a historian * David Armitage, The Times Literary Supplement * The book is rich in insight and an absorbing read. * John Plender, Financial Times * Hosking's discussion presents intriguing potential for further investigations ... It is important work. * Dirk Philipsen, American Historical Review *

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Geoffrey Hosking is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at University College London. A Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Doctor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was BBC Reith Lecturer in 1988. He has written numerous books on Russian history and culture, including Beyond Socialist Realism, A History of the Soviet Union, and Russia and the Russians. He has taught at the Universities of Essex, Wisconsin-Madison, Cologne and Cambridge. He has served on the councils of the Britain-Russia Centre and Index on Censorship, and at various times on the editorial boards of the Slavonic & East European Review, Journal of Contemporary History, Nations and Nationalism, Ab Imperio, and Rossiiskaia istoriia (the principal Russian Academy journal on Russian history).

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