“Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union” by David Satter

"Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union" by David Satter

"The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force."