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Mark B. Smith

Mark B. Smith is an associate professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge. His scholarship focuses on Soviet and modern Russian history. He is the author of The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It.

Mark B. Smith

Books by Mark B. Smith

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
Mark B. Smith
Hardback, 2026
A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
Mark B. Smith
E Book
A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.

Mark B. Smith

Books by Mark B. Smith

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991