A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be regarded as one of the essential works on the fall of the Soviet Union. -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times | Dismantling Utopia by Scott Shane, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters