cover image The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost

The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost

Whitman Bassow. Paragon House Publishers, $12.95 (385pp) ISBN 978-1-55778-227-4

Since 1921, some 300 resident U.S. newspeople have reported on the U.S.S.R., journeymen whom Soviet officialdom, at least pre- glasnost , has handled with suspicion, hostility and, on occasion, violence. This is their story, which PW found ``captivating, balanced, informed.'' (Nov.)