by Zbigniew Brzezinski


Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Analyzing Gorbachev's reforms, the former National Security Council
director last year predicted communism's collapse in what PW called a
"brisk polemic, an amalgam of wishful thinking and hardnosed analysis." In
light of recent upheavals in Eastern Europe, however, readers will likely
find the paperback reprint superfluous.

From School Library Journal

An enlightening summary of the events of the past and a likely
prognosis of the future of monolithic communism. Divided into six parts,
this well-documented, readable book describes Lenin's conspiracy of power
to force a destruction of society by mass terrorism; consolidation of
one-party rule behind a facade of intellectual and cultural openness; and
the creation of a system that allowed Stalin to pulverize society and
nurtured Brezhnev's party-boss corruption, economic backwardness, social
stagnation, and the vested interests of totalitarian leaders. Brzezinski
explores the dilemma of changes confronting Soviet leaders, and explains
why he believes that communism will be unable to make these changes. He
provides readers with some masterful insights into what has happened and
what could happen. --Barbara Batty, Port Arthur


Product Details

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Collier Books; 1st Collier Books ed edition (March 1, 1990)
ISBN: 0020307306