Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
From hope to despair
Hans Modrow, the last prime minister of the German Democratic Republic, has written a compelling account of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the demise of socialism in Eastern Europe, says JOHN GREEN
Perestroika And Germany: The Truth Behind the Myths
by Hans Modrow
(Artery Publications/Marx Memorial Library, £10)
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