Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" (New York Times Book Review), and "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field,"(Journal of Modern History). His most recent study of the Russian extreme right was described as "a model to study Russia" (American Historical Review). Walter Laqueur was for twenty-five years the director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London. He is editor of the Journal of Contemporary History and serves as chairman of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. His books, which have been translated into many languagues, include Black Hundred, Russia and Germany, The Long Road to Freedom, The Fate of the Revolution, Terrorism, and most recently an autobiography, Thursday's Child has Far to Go.

Wide-ranging, learned, and full of the insights of a lifetime of scholarship.

• 1: The Age of Enthusiasm 2: 1917: The Russia We Lost 3: The Fall of the Soviet Union 4: Totalitarianism 5: Sovietology: An Epitaph (I) 6: Sovietology: An Epitaph (II) 7: How Many Victims? 8: The Nationalist Revival 9: East Germany: A Case Study 10: Conclusion Notes Index

Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" (New York Times Book Review), and "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field,"(Journal of Modern History). His most recent study of the Russian extreme right was described as "a model to study Russia" (American Historical Review). Walter Laqueur was for twenty-five years the director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London. He is editor of the Journal of Contemporary History and serves as chairman of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. His books, which have been translated into many languagues, include Black Hundred, Russia and Germany, The Long Road to Freedom, The Fate of the Revolution, Terrorism, and most recently an autobiography, Thursday's Child has Far to Go.

Wide-ranging, learned, and full of the insights of a lifetime of scholarship.

• 1: The Age of Enthusiasm 2: 1917: The Russia We Lost 3: The Fall of the Soviet Union 4: Totalitarianism 5: Sovietology: An Epitaph (I) 6: Sovietology: An Epitaph (II) 7: How Many Victims? 8: The Nationalist Revival 9: East Germany: A Case Study 10: Conclusion Notes Index

Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" (New York Times Book Review), and "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field,"(Journal of Modern History). His most recent study of the Russian extreme right was described as "a model to study Russia" (American Historical Review). Walter Laqueur was for twenty-five years the director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London. He is editor of the Journal of Contemporary History and serves as chairman of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. His books, which have been translated into many languagues, include Black Hundred, Russia and Germany, The Long Road to Freedom, The Fate of the Revolution, Terrorism, and most recently an autobiography, Thursday's Child has Far to Go.

Wide-ranging, learned, and full of the insights of a lifetime of scholarship.

• 1: The Age of Enthusiasm 2: 1917: The Russia We Lost 3: The Fall of the Soviet Union 4: Totalitarianism 5: Sovietology: An Epitaph (I) 6: Sovietology: An Epitaph (II) 7: How Many Victims? 8: The Nationalist Revival 9: East Germany: A Case Study 10: Conclusion Notes Index