Tony Parker spent five months in Moscow in 1990, interviewing wherever he went - and everywhere finding people ready and eager to talk and to exercise their new freedom to speak without fear. From their words he builds a surprising and entertaining kaleidoscope of the Soviet Union today - a picture which includes the manager of huge internationally famous GUM Department Store, a stagehand at the Bolshoi Theatre and the director of the USSR's first McDonald's hamburger bar. He spoke to a World War II tank commander, an army veteran recently returned from Afghanistan, to hippies and pacifists, as well as meeting a chess Grandmaster, a beauty queen, a private detective, and drinking tea for two hours in the Lubianka with officers of the KGB. Scientists, academicians, doctors, old people, schoolchildren, workers - all respond to Tony Parker's skill in loosening tongues and encouraging individuals to speak for themselves.
- ISBN10 0330323474
- ISBN13 9780330323475
- Publish Date 8 May 1992 (first published 4 April 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 July 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 396
- Language English