Foreword<br >for Moscow without thinking specifically of a book; it<br >fliciently overwhelming to try to cover the Soviet Union<br >w York Times. But as I worked there day to day， catching<br >visible， transitory events for the headlines， I began to<br >strong feeling that， despite the broad opportunities for<br >provided in a newspaper like The Times， something was<br >unsaid. Gradually this sense grew into a driving need to<br >more coherent and， hopefully， more durable manner on<br >s of Soviet life， on the values that shaped the society as<br >the last quarter of the twentieth century. I wanted to look<br >Le surface， past the leadership changes， dissidents trials，<br >statistics， and diplomatic negotiations， to dimensions of<br >，d culture where the task was not so much to answer<br >as to ask them， to find the right points of curiosity and<br >nd to give them reasonable voice.<br >