Yakovlev,N. Washington Silhouettes. 1985
Yakovlev, Nikolai. Washington Silhouettes. Moscow: Progress Publishers,
1985. 376 pages.
Nikolai Yakovlev is a well-known Soviet historian with over twenty
books to his credit, which have sold a total of over five million copies.
A number of these have been on U.S. history, including biographies of
George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one tantalizingly titled
"They Overstepped the Line" about John and Robert Kennedy. Yakovlev began
as an expert on the U.S. at the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1959, but in
recent years has concentrated his attention on Soviet history.
"Washington Silhouettes" is a well-informed general survey of U.S.
history, from the origins of the Cold War to the election of Ronald
Reagan. It is written in a lively, opinionated style which U.S. scholars
might dismiss as polemical or even propagandistic, primarily because the
New World Order consensus won't allow them to address its content. But
Yakovlev uses American sources (NSC memorandums during 1948-1950 were
perfectly blunt about plans to conquer the Soviets), and packs every page
with fascinating quotes from U.S. elites and other assorted fun facts.
Yakovlev's writing is uncommonly literate compared to other Progress
Publishers books that were translated from the Russian.
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