Archive for Matthew Hoffman
Book Review: Ecocide In The Ussr by Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr.
Basic Books, Harper Collins, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1992 • 376 pages • $24.00 That Communism in Russia failed is an undisputed fact, but for the most part knowledge of its demise has come to us in vague and fragmentary images. We are familiar with the notion that the system [...]
1Jan1993 | Matthew Hoffman | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Ecocide In The Ussr by Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr.
Basic Books, Harper Collins, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1992 • 376 pages • $24.00 That Communism in Russia failed is an undisputed fact, but for the most part knowledge of its demise has come to us in vague and fragmentary images. We are familiar with the notion that the system [...]
1Nov1992 | Matthew Hoffman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Entrenchment of the State
Mr. Hoffman is a senior in the media department of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas. Mikhail Gorbachev’s new themes for the Soviet Union, glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reform), and their scant but widely publicized concrete manifestations, have caused a great stir in the West. Speculation about what has [...]
1Feb1989 | Matthew Hoffman | 0 comments | Continued-
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