...This chapter discusses the author's experience covering Russia's new tsar after the first handover of power in the Soviet Union since 1964. As the sole correspondent for the Washington Post in Moscow, the author felt under even more pressure. Yuri Andropov admitted that the Soviet...

...This book describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped the life of the author of this book. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and the author, a Washington Post correspondent, reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov...

... Bradlee, who offered encouragement and his hunch that the CIA was behind the story. The author's theory is that it might be retribution for the scoop that had embarrassed the top CIA brass, the story the author had filed from Moscow on February 10, 1984, indicating that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov might...

...This chapter addresses Yuri Andropov's tenure in the Kremlin, including his efforts to reform both foreign and domestic policy, and the crises of late 1983. It mentions Major Gennadiĭ Osipovich, an interceptor pilot who had shot down a Boeing 747 passenger aircraft that was en route from New York...