Pulitzer Prize-winner
The internationally bestselling exposé of the Russian way of life.
'Brilliant and penetrating'
The Times
This book is about the Soviet Union and Soviet life at the height of the Cold War. The author examines the Soviet Union from a political and social point of view.
Observations on and analyses of the lives and character of the Russian people, their social, political, and economic systems, and the compelling issues of life in the Soviet Union, based on the journalist-author's three-year residence in Moscow.
Hedrick Smith has done what we all wish we could do: he has gone to Russia and spoken to the people. Over steaming samovars, in cramped flats, and on dirt-floors, he has spoken to peasants and bureaucrats, artists and officials.
