Only Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost policy could bring out this inside-look at the Soviet Union’s athletic superstars. This book is co-authored by Yuri Khromov, Dean of sportswriters of TASS, and by Dr. Russ Ramsey, US Professor of military affairs and sports historian.
The book contains never-before-released information on how the U.S.S.R. finds its superstars…where they do their military service…and, what happens to them when they lose.
Yuri Khromov and Russ Ramsey are an improbable pair of co-authors—a high TASS official and a West Point graduate, and their book has already been applauded in the official magazines of the Olympic sports.
Photographs of these sports-stars are included together with biographic background of each: Dimitri Bilozerchev, Sergey Bubka, Vyacheslav Ekimov, Robert Emmiyan, Igor Polyansky, Arvidas Sabonis, Vladimir Salnikov, Vasily Shishov, Elena Shushunova, and, Yuri Zakharevich.
