The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski. HarperCollins Publishers, $9.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-02-030730-3
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. (Mar.)
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Reviewed on: 03/01/1990
Genre: Nonfiction