Wilson Center Experts
David Satter
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Wilson Center Project(s):
Internal Life of the Soviet Union based on Real Experiences
Term:
Nov 01, 1986
Nov 01, 1986
Project Summary
Book on life in the Soviet Union, portarying Soviet society with impact from the citizens’ lives, arguing that the essences of the Soviet system is the attempt to create an ideological substitute for reality and to impose it by force.
Previous Terms at the Wilson Center:
Special Correspondent, Wall Street Journal, November 1986.
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