One develops moral self-awareness first by hearing truth and then seeing and acting on it.

Roads to the Temple: 

Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals 

in the Making of the Russian Revolution

by Johannes Jacobse

Review of Leon Aron's Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991 (ISI, June 2012) ISBN: 978-0300118445. Hardcover, 496 pages; $40.00.

Review: The Second Russian Revolution (1987-1991)

"There are different ways to understand how revolutions work," writes Leon Aron in his new book Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and the Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991 that chronicles the collapse of Soviet Communism during Glasnost from 1987- 1991. The most dominant is structuralism, an approach that draws from Marxist thought and sees the state as the central actor in social revolutions. In the structuralist view, revolutions are not made– they happen.

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