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The diaries， interviews and typescript memoirs
on which the following account is based were
assembled by a survivor of the great events of
the 1980s that finally swept away the Soviet
Union.
So begins this brilliant and informed novel
of the near future about the disintegration and
collapse of the Soviet empire. The cataclysmic
events--including riots in Leningrad and the
storming of Moscow by escaped prisoners from
the gulags--are presented as eyewitness ac-
counts by participants and describe exactly
how the end of the U.S.S.R. could come about.
In a narrative richly peopled with memor-
able characters， the reader is swept up into
the human drama of society in turmoil. The
beautiful young student Zoya Densky is among
tens of thousands of workers assaulted by the
KGB when they demonstrate against food
shortages and dismal working conditions. We
follow Zoya s loves and struggles across the
vast face of Russia and through the labor
camps . . . In Paris， Carol Yates， the wife of
the American attach6， learns with horror that
the handsome Russian who shared her bed the
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