Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses - these are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war.

    Beschloss is the author of Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance and Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair. Photos.

    Political degeneration, operative from 1956 onwards, set off a process of progressive subversion of the economic foundations of socialism.The first part begins with a reappraisal of Prague Spring of 1968, distant harbinger of the velvet revolution. It goes on to describe the complete restoration of capitalism, in which act one was played by Poland and Hungary. The victory of peaceful counter-revolution in the latter country leads us to look again at class struggle and repression in Hungary in the years 1945-1953 and then during and after the armed uprising in Budapest in 1956. The violent political confrontation which shook Rumania at the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990 allows a thorough insight into the mechanisms of class struggle under socialism.The second part deals with the collapse in the Soviet Union. At the end of 1989 one conclusion was acceptable: two years of glasnost had brought the Soviet Union to the edge of the abyss. In the name of anti-Stalinism, all socialist ideas were scrapped and the name of universal values, conservative ideology made its comeback. At the precise moment when bourgeois nationalism was breaking out and threatening the Soviet Union with disintegration, the country came closer to the West and, as proof of its good intentions, orchestrated a series of conservative coups in Eastern Europe.

    The lives of ordinary Russians are illuminated in this oral history collection in which they speak of their experiences during events from the Revolution through to the present day

    He reveals the interdependent relationship between economic theory and law that existed in these decades of headlong growth and examines how this relationship shaped both the modern business corporation and substantive due process. Classical economic theory - the cluster of ideas about free markets - became the guiding model for the structure and function of both private and public law.