The Last Masters of the Kremlin: Russian Language edition

The Last Masters of the Kremlin details the history of the Soviet Union through parallel lives of the last Soviet rulers. It is full of little details of behind-the-scenes dealings which opened the way to the top. Unfortunately, a majority of the western Sovietologists consider the subject from a purely academic point of view and don't have the slightest idea what it meant to live under the Soviet regime. The author, who lived many years in the Soviet Union, doesn't have any illusions and depicts the country as he saw and understood it. The Last Masters of the Kremlin is a penetrating and deep analysis done with a human touch. He was the first to write that the Soviet collapse was not only result of internal problems but the strong determination of Ronald Reagan to place the regime where it belongs...the ashes of history.