Hedrick Smith's "The Russians"

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"This study will examine Hedrick Smith's "The Russians" from a governmental perspective, including consideration of the theme of the book, the author's purpose, reactions to specific ideas, and the reasons for such reactions.

From a governmental perspective, the analysis of Smith's portrayal of the Russian people is a difficult task because the book was written before the advent of glasnost and perestroika and is thus somewhat obsolete in its depiction of the human side of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of these more liberal foreign and domestic policies, is mentioned only twice, and in those instances Smith argues that Gorbachev is probably too young to be elevated to a position of prominent leadership in the Soviet Union. Half a decade later, however, the policies of Gorbachev have transformed the Soviet Union and ... "

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