A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia - and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents. Marvin Kalb, then a young diplomatic attache, observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism. In this, his fifteenth book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness account of a superpower in upheaval and of a people yearning for an end to dictatorship.