Download or read book A Vision Unfulfilled written by John Means Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.