Chronicles the Cold War, from its origins in the Soviet Revolution as the twentieth century began to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the century closed.
A high-ranking Soviet official tells of his life as a diplomat and a reluctant spy, and of life at the top of the Soviet power structure before defecting to the U.S.
Focuses on Soviet politics in the period between the end of World War II and the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), known as the Cold War.
