David Satter is one of the minority of historians of Soviet Russia not to be deceived into false optimism by its collapse. His three earlier works were provoked by the gangsterism of Yeltsin’s oligarchs and by the Hitlerian cynicism of Putin, blowing up his own citizens to give himself a pretext for bombing Chechnya to smithereens. This book, its title deliberately inviting a loud shout of ‘No!’, is more vehement than his previous studies of post-Soviet Russia, but just as impeccably argued.

Dec 2011

An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End

When Knowledge Met Power

Griboyedov’s Last Journey

Yours Radically

Losing Lienka

In Search of Raskolnikov

A Dictator’s Progress

Emptying the Bread Basket

Party Walls

Open Season

Witness to a Century

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

One Shift in the Life of…

The Monk behind the Myth

Trial & Terror

Black Sea Battleground

Philosophers & Murderers

The Cook’s Grandson

From the Kremlin to Ladbroke Grove

More Peter than Judas

Travels with My Uncle Vanya

Midwife to Genius

A Communist’s Progress

Ghosts of Anatolia

The Big Freeze

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