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Layers of Conceptual Scaffolding The Red Flag: A History of Communism By David Priestland Grove. 676 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor emeritus of history, University of...

How to Avoid a New Cold War (September 2008)

Some Lessons of History How to Avoid a New Cold War By Robert V. Daniels IS THE FUTURE of the West’s relationship with Russia as dire as many contend in the wake of the August war between...

Turning Back the Clock in Russia (March 2008)

Tsar Vladimir III Turning Back the Clock in Russia By Robert V. Daniels WHILE FOLLOWING Russia’s presidential campaign and the actual election on March 2, I was reminded of what a...

The Age of Anxiety (September 2007)

Writers & Writing The Age of Anxiety By Robert V. Daniels The Cold War is becoming a dim memory for most of us. It was declared over in December 1989 by Presidents Mikhail S. Gorbachev and...

How Putin Sees the World (March 2007)

Flouting Democratic Norms How P ut i n Sees the Wo rld By Robert V. Daniels WHY CAN’T the Russians be like us? That has been the fond dream of Americans since the heady days of the...

Three Egos (November 2005)

Three Egos One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt and Churchill That Changed the World By David J. Bercuson and HolgerH. Herwig Overlook. 320 pp. $29.95. My...

The Gulag in Grim Detail (February 2005)

Writers & Writing The Gulag in Grim Detail By Robert V Daniels IN the lives of nations, as with individuals, unhappy memories often rapidly slip into the past, though this does not prevent...

Khrushchev Unburied (September 2004)

Writers & Writing Khrushchev Unburied By Robert V Daniels Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the Soviet Union's mid-20th-century leader, was a man of deep paradox. He was Josef Stalin's willing...

Russia's New Power Struggle (January 2004)

Autocracy vs. Oligarchy Russia's New Power Struggle By Robert V Daniels Vladimir V. Putin is now poised to become Russia's most powerful ruler since Mikhail S. Gorbachev began to undo...

Without a Known Destination (September 2003)

Without a Known Destination Russia: Experiment with a People By Robert Service Harvard. 406 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor of History Emeritus, University of Vermont;...

Breaking Stalin's Grip (March 2003)

Breaking Stalin's Grip Khrushchev: The Man and His Era By William Taubman Norton. 876 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor emeritus of history, University of Vermont;...

Putin's Patient Strategy (July 2002)

On the Road to a 'United Greater Europe' Putin's Patient Strategy By Robert V Daniels Two highly touted events in May moved Russia closer to President Vladimir V Putin's proclaimed goal...

From H-Bombs to Human Rights (January 2002)

From ?-Bombs to Human Rights Sakharov: A Biography By Richard Lourie University Press of New England. 465 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor emeritus of...

The Bush-Putin Pas de Deux (September 2001)

On the Way to November The Bush-Putin Pas de Deux By Robert V Daniels Ever since the collapse of Communism, the United States has had a schizophrenic view of Russia. On the one hand,...

Putting Putin to the Test (September 2000)

Russia's Political Culture - 1 Putting Putin to the Test By Robert V. Daniels Barely a year has passed since Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, a man hardly known to anyone outside the...

The Man Who Trusted Hitler (September 1999)

The Man Who Trusted Hitler Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia By Gabriel Gorodetsky Yale. 408 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor emeritus of...

Court Politics in Russia (August 1999)

PRIME MINISTER DU JOUR Court Politics in Russia By Robert V. Daniels During his official visit to Washington shortly before he was fired this past August 9, Russia's latest ex-Prime...

A Protocol for Intervention (May 1999)

FIVE BASIC PRINCIPLES A Protocol for Intervention By Robert V. Daniels At least one critical lesson can already be learned from the Kosovo tragedy: Clear principles need to be established...

A Tragedy of Errors (March 1999)

A Tragedy of Errors After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power By Dimitri ?. Simes Simon and Schuster. 272 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor emeritus of...

Russia's New Hope? (September 1998)

FILLING THE VACUUM Russia's New Hope? By Robert V. Daniels With Parliament's ratification of Yevgeny M. Primakov as Russia's new Prime Minister on September 11, the tortured history of...

Russia's New Faces (March 1998)

WHO'S IN CHARGE? Russia's New Faces By Robert V Daniels Early reports on March 23 of President Boris N. Yeltsin's decision to dismiss Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and his...

The Danger of NATO Expansion (July 1997)

ANOTHER COLD WAR? The Danger of NATO Expansion By Robert V. Daniels The Clinton Administration's determination to enlarge the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by taking in three...

Power Plays in Moscow (March 1997)

INVITING THE DELUGE Power Plays in Moscow By Robert V. Daniels The Russian political scene is beginning to look the way it did in the years between the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917....

How the USSR Destroyed Itself (August 1996)

How the USSR Destroyed Itself_ Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union By David Sutler Knopf. 424pp. S30.00. The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook...

Russia's Democratic Dilemma (May 1996)

UNHAPPY CHOICES Russia's Democratic Dilemma BY ROBERT V. DANIELS ANY COUNTRY trying to wrap up a revolutionary period inevitably experiences a time of un-settling pendulum swings. Historians will...

Repossessing the House (January 1996)

DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS Repossessing the House BY ROBERT V. DANIELS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds that the GOP's 1994 electoral success was an epochal annihilation of decades of Democratic dominance in...

Land of Lost Opportunity (May 1995)

Land of Lost Opportunity Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a Superstate By Moshe Lewin The New Press. 368pp. $30.00. Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian...

A Caricature of Soviet Studies (June 1994)

A Caricature of Soviet Studies The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991 By Martin Malta Free Press. 575 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Author, "The End of the...

Yeltsin Takes Control (October 1993)

IN THE WAKE OF THE OCTOBER COUP-1 Yeltsin Takes Control by robert v. danels Robert V. Daniels is professor emeritus of history at the University of Vermont and a frequent NL contributor. His new...

Is Yeltsin a Wise Investment? (March 1993)

FOR RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY Is Yeltsin a Wise Investment? BY ROBERT V. DANIELS George Bush ultimately conceded his mistake in relying too long and too heavily on Mikhail S. Gorbachev as the man to...

What Happened in the USSR and Why (January 1993)

What Happened in the USSR and Why Soviet Politics, 1917-1991 By Mary McAuley Oxford. 132 pp. $18.95. Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991 By R. Craig...

Yeltsin in Trouble at Home (June 1992)

FEARS OF A NEW AUTHORITARIANISM Yeltsin in Trouble at Home BY ROBERT V. DANIELS Boris N. Yeltsin came to life on North American television screens when he visited Washington, Kansas and Canada in...

All that Is Soviet Melts into Air (December 1991)

All that Is Soviet Melts into Air The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons By Mikhail S. Gorbachev HarperCollins. 127pp. $18.00. Mikhail Gorbachev: The Origins of Perestroika By Michel...

Is Sovietology Dead Too? (September 1991)

IS SOVIETOLOGY DEAD TOO? BY ROBERT V. DANIELS The spectacular collapse of Communist governments from the Elbe to Vladivostok is also going to have an earthshaking effect in those Western,...

Losing a Sense of Direction (August 1991)

Losing a Sense of Direction Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and Failures By Robert G. Kaiser Simon & Schuster. 476 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Author, "Is Russia...

The Limits of Gorbachev's Reform (January 1991)

GLASNOST REVISED The Limits of Gorbachev's Reform By Robert V. Daniels Revolutions do not go on forever. Sooner or later, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform revolution in the Soviet...

Five Years that Shook the USSR (September 1990)

Five Years that Shook the USSR Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin By Dusko Doder and Louise Branson Viking. 450 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Robert V Daniels Professor emeritus of...

The Perils of Perestroika (October 1988)

GORBACHEV BUYS TIME The Perils of Perestroika By Robert v. Daniels Waiting in line at a halfempty Moscow restaurant last month and observing newcomers being admitted out of turn by the...

The Soviet Union at 70 (October 1987)

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Soviet Union at Seventy BY ROBERT V. DANIELS On November 7, citizens of the Soviet Union will have two revolutions to contemplate: the one that brought the...

The Politics of Summitry (October 1986)

BACKROOM PRESSURES The Politics of Summitry BY ROBERT V. DANIELS The acrimonious collapse of the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Iceland, which very briefly promised an epochal accord between the...

Gorbachev Consolidates His Rule (February 1986)

THE 27 TH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU-2 Gorbachev Consolidates Rule BY ROBERT V. DANIELS A Party congress in Moscow bears little resemblance to a congress or political convention in a democratic...

The Star Wars Summit (September 1985)

HIDDEN AGENDAS The Star Wars Summit by robert v danels American opinion of the Soviet Union has always been subject lo exaggerated moods of hopeand fear. Nowtheappearanceofa fresh face in the...

Reading Russia's Cycles (September 1985)

Reading Russia's Cycles_ The Drama of the Soviet 1960s: A Lost Reform By Alexander Yanov Institute of International Studies, University of California. 141 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by Robert V....

America's Doubting Allies (June 1985)

EUROPE IN FERMENT-2 America's Doubting Allies BY ROBERT V DANIELS Naples In Western Europe the United States is becoming its own worst enemy, and is in danger of disrupting the alliance that has...

The Making of a Kremlin Transition (March 1985)

GORBACHEV'S SUCCESSION The Making of a Kremlin Transition BY ROBERT V. DANIELS Last year's most popular joke in Moscow may no longer be heard for quite a while. A Soviet citizen was trying to get...

The Chernenko Comeback (February 1984)

BEATING THE SMART MONEY The Chernenko Comeback by robert v daniels Political power is an elusive phenomenon under any circumstance. In a society as secretive as the Soviet Union, the laws...

Andropov and the New Soviet Generation (January 1983)

REFURBISHING THE BUREAUCRACY Andropov and the New Soviet Generation BY ROBERT V. DANIELS The most striking aspect of Yuri V. Andropov's first few months as supreme Soviet leader has been his...

The Varieties of Soviet Dissidence (October 1975)

The Varieties of Soviet Dissidence Dissent in the USSR: Politics, Ideology and People Edited by Rudolf L. Tokes Johns Hopkins. 453 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor of History,...

Woytinsky's Final Memoir (April 1962)

Woytinsky's Final Memoir STORMY PASSAGE By W. S. Woytinsky Vanguard. 550 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by ROBERT V. DANIELS Associate Professor of History, University of Vermont; author, "The...

THEORY AND HUMAN NATURE IN RUSSIA (June 1961)

Theory and Human Nature in Russia The Soviet Design for a World State. By Elliot R. Goodman. Columbia. 512 pp. $6.75. Common Sense about Russia. By Robert Conquest. Macmillan. 175 pp....

Do We Need a National Purpose? (September 1960)

By Robert V. Daniels DO WE NEED A NATIONAL PURPOSE? Traditional values are inadequate to the problems of modern America In The Last six months we have seen the nation's press filled with...

The Soviet Party and Its Leaders (July 1960)

WRITERS and WRITING The Soviet Party and Its Leaders The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. By Leonard Schapiro. Random House. 631 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Assistant...

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DANISH, MAX D.

Dans, Horace B.

DANY, L. LA

DANZIG, AARON L.

DARLING, S. F.

DARMSTADTER, HOWARD

Darrow, Clarence

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