1953-1985

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe, focusing on the Solidarity uprisings in Poland, Soviet foreign policy during the era, and the influence the collapse had on Mikhail Gorbachev's later position toward Eastern Europe.

The author presents a Soviet perspective of the Cold War, describing how each of the Soviet leaders from Stalin to Gorbachev contributed to the failure of Communism.

Traces the activities of Soviet leaders Nikita Krushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin, from 1953 through 1995, to show how each man contributed to the unintended dismantling of the Communist system.

Discusses the rise of the Soviet Union and its emergence as a superpower, its ultimate fall, and the impact of the collapse.

Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.