鈥淸An] extraordinary book.鈥濃擝rian Eno 鈥 鈥淥ne of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.鈥濃擜lexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir 鈥 鈥淣ot just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.鈥濃擲lavoj 沤i啪ek 鈥 鈥淓xtraordinary and...
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of...