7), in which the laws of progress are known and there are no alternatives. Snyder sets up a potentially stimulating contrast between what he calls the politics of inevitability, the sense that ‘the future is just more of the present’ (p. Snyder’s book is characterised by all the main features of the type: broad but unsubstantiated assertions a mix of profound erudition and overwhelming prejudice and penetrating analysis combined with the absence of even basic standards of scholarly methodology. There is a type of book that contributes to what can be called the literature of the New Cold War, and this work will undoubtedly take a top place in the bibliography of the genre. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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