1917-1991, soviet union

Studies the pattern of Gorbachev's actions from earliest boyhood to his position as the primary agent..

Woves personal narratives into a Tolstoyan epic of Russia in the twentieth century.

A woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.

Presents personal impressions of many ordinary individual Russians, as formed by David K. Shipler, former Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.

A biography of the seventeenth and eighteenth century emperor of Russia who was crowned co-tsar at age ten.