Tyranny and Myth

Issue Date January 1995
Volume 6
Issue 1
Page Numbers 169-73
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A review of The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, by Martin Malia, and Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, by Daniel Chirot.

About the Author

Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (2012).

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