
This book simply must be read. Paints the most spellbinding picture of the USSR as a place of united hope. A shared hope of the people being exercised each day, in the face of daunting material conditions. The confidence given to a full people of a better future, reinforced through lived experience. Also reads with an undertone of tragedy, of the dashed hopes of hundreds of millions who poured effort into building the USSR.
This book simply must be read. Paints the most spellbinding picture of the USSR as a place of united hope. A shared hope of the people being exercised each day, in the face of daunting material conditions. The confidence given to a full people of a better future, reinforced through lived experience. Also reads with an undertone of tragedy, of the dashed hopes of hundreds of millions who poured effort into building the USSR.