New York: Summit Books, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 303, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. Introduction by Vitaly Korotich. Afterword by Andrei Sakharov. Afterword by Olzhas Suleimenov. There is an inscription on the fep signed by the Editor (Albee) The inscription reads To Senator Leahy: Russia is a long way from Vermont, but at least I knew how to keep warm there. My best wishes to you and your family. Marina Albee. Christopher Cerf (born August 19, 1941) is an American author, composer-lyricist, voice actor, and record and television producer. He has contributed music to Sesame Street, and co-created and co-produced the PBS literacy education television program Between the Lions. Cerf's father was Random House co-founder, publisher, editor and TV panelist Bennett Cerf. Cerf also work as an author and satirist. In 1970, he helped launch the National Lampoon, serving as a Contributing Editor from its first issue until the mid-1970s. Marina Albee was a Ph.D. student at The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in NYC in 1985. She decided to go there because of dynamic professor Jonathan Sanders, who had organized the construction of an antenna on the roof of the Institute to watch Soviet television. Marina began to study the Soviet Union through its television and Mikhail Gorbachev's USSR was changing it every day. The inventor of the system went on tour to Moscow and she accompanied him to Gosteleradio. This led to a career spanning 30 years, doing live satellite TV, to TV and film production, to music production, to telecom servicing. She teaches at the European University at St. Petersburg. More