Robert Francis Byrnes (1917–1997)
Autor(a) de After Brezhnev : sources of Soviet conduct in the 1980s
About the Author
Obras por Robert Francis Byrnes
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1917-12-30
- Data de falecimento
- 1997-06-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Waterville, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Ocean Isle, North Carolina, USA
- Locais de residência
- Bloomington, Indiana, USA
- Educação
- Amherst College
Harvard University - Ocupações
- historian
- Relações
- Jewell, Eleanor F. (wife)
Membros
Críticas
After Brezhnev: Sources of Soviet Conduct in the 1980s por Robert F. Byrnes
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."… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 37
- Popularidade
- #390,572
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 8