Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
By Mark B. Smith
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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By Mark B. Smith
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A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection fromThe New Statesman
A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.
To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambridge historian Mark B. Smith d...






















