I read a memoir by an African who received a scholarship in the sixties to study in Moscow (Lumumba University?) who descibed repeated instances of racist harrassment by Muscovites. The anti-racist consciousness instilled in the populace during the Soviet era was a bit more shallow, methinks. Michael Pugliese P.S. On Stasi see the Markus Wolf memoir. Tikkun ran an interview w/him that was revealing. And the new book I saw an ad in The Nation, with interviews of Gorbachev by his old Czech roommate in college, Zdenek Mlynar, s/b good. Mlynar was later on a member of the CC of the Czech CP during the Prague Spring. Telos published a chapter of his memoir/analysis, "Nightfrost in Prague, " Karz-Kohl publishers. Quite good. Channel Four or BBC based a docudrama on it that ABC ran in '78. The scenes of poor Alexander Dubcek, in the book, "negotiating" with Comrade Brezhnev are instructive. I dare say that those on the list that focus only on US imperialism, while neglecting Soviet abrogations of other states national sovereignity need to read it. The Cold War International History Project website and the National Security Archives websites both has extensive material from the opened Soviet archives on the Warsaw Pact invasion. The CWHP website in particular has phone conversations from Comrade Brezhnev and Dubcek from '68 that range from chilling to absurd. Michael Pugliese