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Robert Francis Byrnes (1917–1997)

Auteur de After Brezhnev : sources of Soviet conduct in the 1980s

8 oeuvres 37 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Œuvres de Robert Francis Byrnes

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Date de naissance
1917-12-30
Date de décès
1997-06-19
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Waterville, New York, USA
Lieu du décès
Ocean Isle, North Carolina, USA
Lieux de résidence
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Études
Amherst College
Harvard University
Professions
historian
Relations
Jewell, Eleanor F. (wife)

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Editor Robert F. Byrnes writes in the preface, on behalf of his 40 fellow co-authors: "All of us agree that there is no likelilhood whatsoever that the Soviet Union will become a political democracy or that it will collapse in the foreseeable future." Eight years later, it did exactly that -- vanish into the dustbin of history, to quote a felicitous phrase of Leon Trotsky. This book represents the most stupid collective wisdom about the Soviet Union since 1919, when Lincoln Steffins came back from a visit to Leninist Moscow and proclaimed, "I have seen the future and it works."… (plus d'informations)
 
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GlennGarvin | May 16, 2020 |

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Œuvres
8
Membres
37
Popularité
#390,572
Critiques
1
ISBN
8