About the Book: Dark Side of the Earth: How the Soviet Union Collapsed but
Remained-A Times Book of the Year
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who won the Cold War? All my life I thought I knew the
answer . . . In 1961, the Soviet Union put the first man into space. By 1991, it
had disappeared. How could just a single generation separate the apex of a
civilisation from its collapse? And what remained stirring in its ruins? Through
the lives of that last generation, renowned Kremlin critic Mikhail Zygar reveals
the truth about how everything came crashing down. A tale