Richard Pipes is the Baird Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Communism, Russia under the Old Regime, The Russian Revolution, and Property and Freedom.
Richard Pipes has written an important biography about a man whose
contributions to the fall of communism have been downplayed both by
his former boss and by today's Russian leaders, who view the Soviet
collapse as an unmitigated catastrophe.
*Survival: Global Politics and Strategy*
Richard Pipes, the distinguished American historian of Soviet
Russia, provides a notable scholarly and public service by writing
[the] first biography that carefully follows every major stage in
Yakovlev's career and political-ideological evolution.
*The Washington Times*
We are in Richard Pipes's debt for calling our attention to the man
whose ideas helped transform his own country and world politics
during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
*The New York Review of Books*
In this slim, highly provocative book, Richard Pipes engages in a
much-needed exercise in historical reparation. We have here the
first biography of an ideologue turned heretic and then apostate,
whose ideas begot, to a decisive extent, the collapse of Lenin's
state. In documenting Yakovlev's epiphany, Pipes makes a seminal
contribution to the literature on disenchantment, apostasy,
illumination, and awakening.
*Times Higher Education*
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