Through Dark Days and White Nights: Four Decades Observing a Changing Russia

The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960&#39;s through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia.<br><br>&quot;This book is like a script for a documentary spanning four decades when an especially astute and literate observer watched Russia emerge from stagnation and enter a period of dramatic economic, social, and political change and, on many fronts, upheaval.&quot; &mdash;Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution.<br><br>&quot;Naomi Collins takes the reader on a fascinating ride through the last forty years of Russia&#39;s turbulent history, beginning as a graduate student and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador. Because she writes so well, the ride is always fun, informative and insightful. Read, enjoy, learn!&quot; &mdash;Marvin Kalb, Murrow Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.<br><br>&quot;Naomi Collins&#39;s book conveys the atmosphere and feel of these changing times, describing settings and scenes, and the people in them, in a pointillist style.&quot; &mdash;William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Amherst College