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AUTHOR: DAVID REMNICK...
During the astonishing, bewildering years when the Russians were dismantling their steel-clad Eurasian empire, David Remnick was not content to be an eyewitness to history. He waded into it, hip deep, and interviewed hundreds of politicians, generals, intellectuals and workers. Remnick, then a Washington Post correspondent, now at the New Yorker, saw his job as going where the action was, talking with the key figures and checking out the details...
...Soviet days began, Remnick believes, not with perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to restructure socialism, but with glasnost -- the readiness to face facts -- and Gorbachev's call to fill in the "blank spots" of history. By losing control of the past, the Communist Party began to lose control of its present -- and future. "The return of history," Remnick writes, "was the start of the great reform of the twentieth century and, whether Gorbachev liked it or not, the collapse of the last empire on earth...
...Towner, G. Allen, L. B. Murdock, A. Ingraham, M. P. Whittal, R. W. Bull, W. D. Walker, J. Bordman, Jr., E. Hollister, C. C. Bull, C. C. Dana, G. H. Kinnicut, H. F. Lunt, E. B. Spargo, C. A. Lakin, P. E. Sargeant, A. Holland, E. W. Remnick, R. H. Carleton, E. D. Curtis, R. Barstow, G. W. Crowley, G. B. Gavin, L. P. Marvin, C. B. Wood, R. B. Flershem, H. C. Ffaulhe, F. R. Burke, J. F. Wood, W. E. Burke, R. Prahl, L. G. Leopold, M. Beltman, H. Emerson, W. H. Gray, J. L. Coolidge, F. Giere...