Product Description: Influential French novelist, screenwriter, pioneer in literary genre and Oscar nominee Vladimir Pozner came to the United States in the 1930s. He found the nation and its people in a state of profound material and spiritual crisis, and took it upon himself to chronicle the life of the worker, the striker, the politician, the starlet, the gangster, the everyman; to document the bitter, violent racism tearing our society asunder, the overwhelming despair permeating everyday life, and the unyielding human struggle against all that...read more

Leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner reflects on his nation from Stalin to perestroika, the evolution of the Communist party, past 'cultural genocide,' and the world's emergence from Cold War thinking

A Soviet commentator records each minute of the recent seventy-two hour coup that almost crushed the efforts of those who fought for change and freedom in the Soviet Union

Product Description: Now in paperback--leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner's bestselling book of personal memoir and political observation. Aside from Gorbachev, Pozner is the most widely known Russian personality in America, and he earns his fame with these controversial commentaries that reveal his strongly humanistic philosophy...read more

Ordinary and famous American and Soviet citizens offer their memories of wartime, revealing simultaneous respect and distrust