Accurate Quote by Jack F. Matlock, Jr

Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading,…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

— Nikita Khrushchev

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few…

— Nelson DeMille

“War reporter Lawrence Sheets’s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two decades ago.…

— Hugh Pope

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

— Jerry Falwell

A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

— Yakov Smirnoff

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think…

— Gary Shteyngart

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical; and a great many books have…

— Julian Assange

“In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. - Symphony for the City of…

— M T Anderson

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

— Vladimir Sorokin

“This may read like a mad journey through some of the most dangerous places on earth, but it is much more than that as…

— Oliver Bullough