NIEKRICZ Alexander, HELLER Mikhail - Utopia in power (2 volumes), second circulation edition

Seventy years of the USSR's existence is not much in Russia's long history. But those bloody years led to the formation of a system hitherto unknown to mankind.

Utopia in Power is the story of a state that enslaved society, and the story of a party that completely dominated the state. Finally, it is the story of heroic human resistance.

The Soviet Union was the heart of the socialist system and also its model. Its peculiar feature - the all-encompassing influence of the ruling party on all spheres of life - determined the nature of Soviet institutions and the character of homo sovieticus. This total pressure deformed the course of the processes inherent in modern societies and led to a hitherto unknown form of regime.

The book, written by respected Russian historians, is a unique record of events in the Soviet Union after 1917. It is the first to describe the times from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Konstantin Chernenko in such a complete manner.

2ND EDITION

Publisher: Universitas

Year of publication: 1989

Format: 210 x 140 mm

Number of pages: 690

Complete in DB condition (cover bends and scuffs).