Polishing Mirrors for Heaven
I have visited Russia twice. The first time, in 1991, I found a nation in deep chaos. The Soviet Union was rapidly disintegrating, and that year’s news featured a failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev and the resulting power struggle led by Boris Yeltsin. Ultimately, Yeltsin would triumph over Russia’s diehard communists, after leading a military attack on the parliament building and introducing a new era of freedom and openness to the West. On my second visit, in 2002, I ...