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Extremely disappointed with this book using Robert Conquest as a source. He's not an historian, he's a British intelligence liaison who was paid to produce anti-Soviet propaganda.


 
Also extremely disappointed that the type is maybe size 6 and the block quotes, which appear on every page, are maybe size 4. It's taking me 90 minutes to read 20 pages because I need a magnifying glass.


 
Also extremely disappointed that the first 46 pages are what I would consider non sequiturs about the Chernobyl disaster and Gorbachev's childhood. 15% of the entire book (so far) has literally nothing to do with the nuclear arms race.
 
 
As a side note, it's very weird that about a third to maybe even half this book so far is direct quotes from other books. Sometimes entire pages are multiple paragraph long quotes. It comes across as very lazy.
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