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Samir Amin, Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016), 144 pp., $21.

^*Eric Hobsbawm, Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (New York: New Press, 2013), xv + 319 pp., $27.95

All that is solid melts into air.
– Marx and Engels, 1848

Almost nothing that we have inherited can any longer be taken for granted.
– Eric Hobsbawm, 2002