Jochen Hellbeck, a professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author of Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin. He is writing a book about the clash and the entanglements of Germans and Soviets in the battle of Stalingrad.
Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows is a searching and humane investigation of the totalitarian condition.
Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.
The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.


