American Top Journalists Analyse Russia

This book concentrates on Russia-related Pulitzer Prize-winning reports and editorial cartoons from leading American newspapers. The reports cover the span from early stages of the Soviet Union under Lenin through to the Russian Federation under Putin. American top journalists and cartoonists show the suppression system of the Stalin era to Gorbachev' s Glasnost and Perestroika movement and the events hereafter. Each story is told on the basis of the original newspaper sources, the biography of the award-winners and the confidential jury reports of the Pulitzer Prize juries, discloing the decision-making processes.