


This book is a search for the source of the magical power of Soviet Constitution to provide and protect the freedom, democracy, equality and justice. It presents a record of the political, economic, social and moral trends of its time.

Is the Constitution a myth? If that question strikes you as blasphemous, you confirm the thesis of this brightly written book, which offers a lively new perspective on an old but timely subject. Eric Black suggests that the Constitution is not at all what we like to think it...