Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Age of Dissimulation

With his dissimulation and compensating zeal, his accommodations and rationalisations, his mix of motives (careerism, but also fear and genuine belief) and his proximity to the suffering he nevertheless condoned, Simonov provides exemplary answers to the questions that weave through the book.

ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union