![]() I mention many of these sources in the endnotes, but I would particularly like to thank a few people who assisted directly in my research. ![]() While gathering material for this book, I have benefited from the stimulating conversation and hospitality of friends, colleagues, and sources in many different countries. I therefore have them primarily to thank for ushering me into the shadow of Big Brother and getting me to write about the experience. When I went to work in Yugoslavia and Poland, I was also following in the footsteps of my peripatetic parents. ![]() I was to visit Russia, in one capacity or another, under all Russian leaders from Stalin to Yeltsin. I was eight weeks old when I first went to Russia, courtesy of my parents, Joseph and Marie Dobbs, who had met at the British embassy in Moscow in 1948. But my interest in the former Communist world goes back long before that. THIS BOOK IS THE OUTCOME of reporting tours in Yugoslavia, Poland, and the Soviet Union between 19. Over and over again, filling half a page. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals. And it was no longer the same cramped awkward handwriting as before. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action.
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