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The Dark Side of the Earth
How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained - A Times Book of the Year
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The Dark Side of the Earth
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Daniel Henning
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Mikhail Zygar
'Tells the story with a mordant eye, weaving together the disintegration of Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist ambitions, the implosion of the Soviet economy and the plight of ordinary people'
DOMINIC SANDBROOK
'Savage, comic and tragic . . . Brilliant' JOHN CRACE
Who won the Cold War? All my life I thought I knew the answer . . .
In 1961, the Soviet Union put the first man into space. By 1991, it had disappeared. How could just a single generation separate the apex of a civilisation from its collapse? And what remained stirring in its ruins?
Through the lives of that last generation, renowned Kremlin critic Mikhail Zygar reveals the truth about how everything came crashing down. A tale of epic hubris, told with jaw-dropping candour via the memories of its protagonists and victims, this is a masterpiece of narrative history, essential for understanding modern Russia.
'This is history as it should be: written like a novel and brimming with moral urgency. Extraordinary'
IAN DUNT
'Pointed, novel, and profoundly relevant' FOREIGN POLICY
'One of the most thoughtful Russian writers of our time . . . You may think you know how it all ends, but still, you simply can't put it down'
YULIA NAVALNAYA©2025 Mikhail Zygar
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An amazing book . . . From Steven Spielberg on down, the filmmakers of the world should get on this story of Gorbachev and Yeltsin and all the things that could have gone in a different direction (ALASTAIR CAMPBELL)
Tells the story with a mordant eye, weaving together the disintegration of Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist ambitions, the implosion of the Soviet economy and the plight of ordinary people (DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Times Books of the Year)
I love books that tell the story of an entire country through the intimate, everyday lives of its people - both famous and unknown. Mikhail Zygar is one of the most thoughtful Russian writers of our time, and behind every page lies meticulous, painstaking work. You may think you know how it all ends, but still, you simply can't put it down (YULIA NAVALNAYA, pro-democracy activist and widow of Alexei Navalny)
Marking an important turn in Zygar's career, The Dark Side of the Earth signals his shift from chronicler of political life to a thinker about cultural politics . . . Zygar reminds us that Russia is not some mysterious enigma, but rather a violent, nihilistic mirror of what other polities might equally become . . . Pointed, novel, and profoundly relevant
This is history as experience, systems rendered through the lives they shape and often destroy . . . The Dark Side of the Earth shines
Savage, comic and tragic. Mikhail Zygar's brilliant eye-witness account of the end of the Soviet Union takes you to the heart of modern Russia (JOHN CRACE, author of DEPRAVED NEW WORLD)
Blends political history, cultural studies, and biographical narrative to illuminate the persistence of imperial ideology . . . The Dark Side of the Earth reads less like a history book and more like a strategic briefing disguised as cultural analysis. Zygar's central insight is that Russia's post-Soviet trajectory cannot be understood through policy alone - it must be decoded through the stories it tells itself
A marathon effort to retell the story of perestroika through hundreds of interviews [Zygar] conducted over several years with many of the leading participants . . . The tale jumps from one personality to another, weaving world events in the background, meandering across Russia's vast landscape . . . It is a dramatic story, full of wonderful anecdotes . . . Perhaps it is the only way to write about a revolution
In Zygar's book, it's people who take center stage, not messiahs; individual characters, not abstract nations. We see that it wasn't dictators who saved the world from apocalypse, but humanists. And the contrast with today's rulers makes the book all the more bitter and revealing. And yes, it's brilliantly written - with a lively, sparkling wit (DMITRY MURATOV, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize)
Shows definitively that some leading Russians were lionised by the West for their anti-Soviet views simply on the basis that "my enemy's enemy is my friend" rather than dealing with them in the round
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