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©2026
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x, 550 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Prologue: 2 June 1962 -- Nikita Khrushchev's revolution of multiple futures (1917-53) -- Part one: The dictatorship that loves you (1953-64). The man of the people with blood on his hands ; Gagarin's conquest ; The glittering metropolis ; The boundary between two environments ; Slush -- Part two: Eternal red star (1965-74). New year with Brezhnev ; People in uniform ; To the square ; Socialist bodies ; A string bag ; On stage, off stage -- Part three: Faded paradise (1975-84). Oil fields and silver birches ; Hammer and sicle as far as the eye can see ; Homo sovieticus ; The danger society ; Misfits ; The life cycle of eternal socialism -- Part four: The country that committed suicide by accident (1985-91). The last revolutionary ; Phone call to Gorky ; The end of Soviet civilization -- Afterword
"A...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"--