About the Author

Rodric Braithwaite was based in Moscow from September 1988 to May 1992. He retains business and educational interests in Russia.

Reviews

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003


“A rare, valuable, and immensely readable contribution to our understanding of one of the epochal events of the twentieth century.”—Strobe Talbott


“This extremely interesting, truthful, and honest book gives an objective and dramatic picture of Russia. If others in the West had understood my country as profoundly as Rodric Braithwaite does, history would have treated us all more kindly.”—Mikhail Gorbachev