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David Remnick
This person is a young Washington Post journalist who speaks Russian and is assigned to the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
This person was born in 1879 in a small village in Russian, attended seminary, and was expelled because of communism.
Vladimir Lenin
This person has been the symbol of Communism and Bolshevism in the Soviet Union since 1917.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This person replaced Chernenko and was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991.
Boris Yeltsin
This person worked in the Communist party and was elected president of the Russian Federation in 1991.
Andrei Sakharov
This person was a Soviet physicist who became a Soviet dissident after creating the Soviet Union's first thermonuclear bomb.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsysn
This person is a Soviet historian and novelist who wrote A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.
Nikita Khrushchev
This person assumed power in the Soviet Union in...
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