Vision Unfulfilled : Russia and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century

Unlike most Soviet-centered histories, A Vision Unfulfilled begins with a chapter summarizing late nineteenth-century Russian history, allowing instructors to begin their course with 1894, 1905, 1914, or 1917.

The book also gives fuller attention to the history of the non-Russian populations in the tsarist and Soviet empires than other texts of its kind.