Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

For 20 years David Satter has riveted readers of The Wall Street Journal Readers Digest and other publications with his powerful and intimate reporting of events in the Soviet Union. Now–in a book that totally demolishes any lingering notions that there was anything progressive or humane about the U.S.S.R.–Satter offers a devastating picture of a disaster waiting to happen.