The Kremlin And The People
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
At the height of Soviet power, few Western voices carried more weight — or more controversy — than that of Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent for The New York Times. The Kremlin and the People presents Duranty's intimate and unflinching account of life inside the Soviet Union, drawing on his years of direct access to the corridors of Stalinist power and the everyday citizens living beneath its shadow. With the authority of a seasoned foreign correspondent, he chronicles the inner workings of the Soviet state, the machinery of propaganda, and the stark realities of a population caught between revolutionary idealism and brutal authoritarian control. Duranty's prose is characteristically direct and journalistic, yet rich with the kind of insider detail that only prolonged proximity to power can yield. This work sits at a fascinating and troubling crossroads of history and journalism, offering a portrait of the USSR that is at once illuminating and deeply contested — Duranty's legacy remains one of the most debated in 20th-century reportage. For readers drawn to the darker corridors of Soviet history and the complex ethics of eyewitness testimony, this account raises questions that history itself has never fully resolved.
Author: Walter Duranty
Format: Hardback
Genre: Politics & law
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
At the height of Soviet power, few Western voices carried more weight — or more controversy — than that of Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent for The New York Times. The Kremlin and the People presents Duranty's intimate and unflinching account of life inside the Soviet Union, drawing on his years of direct access to the corridors of Stalinist power and the everyday citizens living beneath its shadow. With the authority of a seasoned foreign correspondent, he chronicles the inner workings of the Soviet state, the machinery of propaganda, and the stark realities of a population caught between revolutionary idealism and brutal authoritarian control. Duranty's prose is characteristically direct and journalistic, yet rich with the kind of insider detail that only prolonged proximity to power can yield. This work sits at a fascinating and troubling crossroads of history and journalism, offering a portrait of the USSR that is at once illuminating and deeply contested — Duranty's legacy remains one of the most debated in 20th-century reportage. For readers drawn to the darker corridors of Soviet history and the complex ethics of eyewitness testimony, this account raises questions that history itself has never fully resolved.