New York: Thomas Dunn Books )An imprint of St. Martin's Press], 2000. First U.S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiii, [1],934, [2] pages. Footnotes. Map. Illustrations. Brief Chronology. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In English with some Russian text. Author dated inscription in Russian on the fep. Inscription translates as To Dear Barbara with great respect and gratitude for her surprising patience. Leon April 13, 2000. Excerpted from the American Enterprise Institute website: "Leon Aron is Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of three books and over 300 articles and essays. He is the author of the first full-scale scholarly biography of Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life; Russia s Revolution: Essays 1989-2006; and, most recently, Roads to the Temple: Memory, Truth, Ideas and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991. Dr. Aron earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has contributed an opening chapter to The New Russian Foreign Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998), the first detailed and systematic account of the intellectual and moral revolution that precipitated the Soviet collapse. Dr. Aron has contributed numerous essays and articles to newspapers and magazines. From 2014 to 2020, Dr. Aron was a governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the operations of several international broadcasting outlets, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. From 1990 to 2004, he was a panelist on Looking from America (Gliadya iz Ameriki), a weekly Voice of America Russian-language radio and television show. Dr. Aron has taught at Georgetown University. More