Age of Delirium

"e;Every page of this splendid and eloquent and impassioned book reflects an extraordinarily acute understanding of the Soviet system."e; -Washington TimesThe first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter, a reporter in Moscow for the Financial Times of London, shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force. "e;I had almost given up hope that any American could depict the true face of Russia and Soviet rule. In David Satter's Age of Delirium, the world has received a chronicle of the calvary of the Russian people under communism that will last for generations."e; Vladimir Voinovich, author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin"e;Spellbinding. . . . Gives one a visceral feel for what it was like to be trapped by the communist system."e; Washington Post"e;Satter deserves our gratitude. . . . He is an astute observer of people, with an eye for essential detail and for human behavior in a universe wholly different from his own experience in America."e; Wall Street Journal