Bio
Elena Klepikova is a Russian-born historian, journalist, and novelist who left the USSR in 1977. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Russian Institute in the early 1980s. Klepikova is the co-author of Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin (1983), Behind the High Kremlin Walls (1986) and Zhirinovsky: Russian Fascism and the Making of a Dictator (1995).
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JUL 1, 1981 • Article
Russia's Nightmare Joke--and Daytime Reality
"What if, today, the last great empire on earth were nothing more than a fiction trying its best to convince both itself and others of ...