Reviews
Jack Matlock, the former U.S. ambassador in Moscow, writing in The Washington Post, said that Age of Delirium was “spellbinding” and gave “a visceral sense of what it felt like to be trapped in the communist system.” The Virginia Quarterly Review wrote, “The brilliance of this book lies in its eccentricity and in the author’s profound knowledge of and sympathy for the suffering of the Russian people under communism.”
Martin Sieff, writing in the Canadian National Post, wrote that Darkness at Dawn was “Vivid, impeccably researched and truly frightening.” Angus Macqueen, writing in the Guardian, compared Darkness at Dawn to Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya. He wrote: “Both of these books underline the moral vacuum that the destruction of the Soviet Union has left.”
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