Recounts the final days before the fall of Phnom Penh and of life under the Khmer Rouge as seen through the eyes of two men who shared a unique commitment to each other, and was the basis for the motion picture, The Killing Fields.

Written in 1985, this book cuts through the Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and later political realities. The author probes Soviet history, society, and politics to explain how the U.S.S.R. remained stable from revolution through the mid-1980s.

Text: English, German (translation)