Jon Jacobson
Auteur de When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics
A propos de l'auteur
Jon Jacobson is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
Œuvres de Jon Jacobson
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 16
- Popularité
- #679,947
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 7
This is a good work of history, but a bit boring to a layman because the author ties the narrative so closely to the thoughts and actions of various individuals, both Soviet and western. He does not spend much effort on explaining things on a general level before the final conclusion. Furthermore, the book says so little about domestic developments in the 1920s that the reader's view of the actual political situation feels partial. I therefore think the book might be more rewarding to readers who already have a good understanding of the early political history of the Soviet Union, especially ones who are familiar with the most active Central Committee officials such as Chicherin and Bukharin.
This book was published in 1994, and its last sentence reads "However, many of the more antagonistic conclusions drawn from the first era of Soviet foreign relations would exert a powerful hold on the national political imagination for almost as long as there was a Soviet Union". In 2022 as I write this review, we can conclude that it has still not released the country from its grip.… (plus d'informations)