'8 Pieces of Empire' by Lawrence Scott Sheets

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The Soviet Union was a fearful place, but after its collapse it became a fearsome one of chaos and danger. Not that Lawrence Scott Sheets, an accomplished Reuters and National Public Radio correspondent and bureau chief, provides order in “8 Pieces of Empire,’’ his unforgettable memoir and travelogue of a period and a place most of us would prefer to forget. But he does give meaning, and perspective, to this time and place, and infuses it with drama and despair.

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