‘Despite its virtues – Hoffman is an able and articulate writer and had access to a lot of previously classified documents – the book is badly spoiled by crass anti-Sovietism.’

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David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand is reviewed – as you may be able to guess from the above quote – in The Morning Star, who take issue with the book’s discussion of the extensive Soviet chemical warfare programme in particular.

‘The Soviet Union is castigated as the embodiment of a “failed ideology” and a system that “reflexively buried the truth”‘ they say (quite rightly, in fact).

If you’ve read the book, tell us what you think.