Overview -
• Only book that presents a comprehensive overview and insider's authoritative analysis of late Soviet and Russian politics over the past thirty years from the time Mikhail Gorbachev took power in the Kremlin to the present. Kovalev explores the Russian people and their leaders through a variety of different perspectives, including socio-economic, psycho-political, and religious wellsprings. This book not only analyzes the current parlous state of Russian politics and society, but also illuminates the path forward to a more just and democratic future. Andrei Kovalev comes from an elite line of Moscow diplomats, and has worked in nine Soviet and Russian agencies, including in Gorbachev's personal office and as executor of top Foreign Minstry assignments.
REVIEWS
Andrei Kovalev says things that no outsider could … [This is a] sizzling memoir … [an] unsparing account of Soviet collapse, and of the hardliners' revenge that followed.
The Economist