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Commentary on Yevgeniy Fiks’ Soviet Union, July 1991 EssayCommentary on Yevgeniy Fiks’ Soviet Union, July 1991Kent State University Russian professor Brian James Baer comments on Yevgeniy Fiks’ work — and the events in Leningrad and Moscow in the summer of 1991.
