Bulgakov, Mikhail. Master y Margarita, Heart of a Dog

Dostoevsky, Fydor. Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot

Genevra Gerhart, The Russian's World: Life and Language, Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995.

Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls

Jennifer Gould, Vodka, Tears, and Lenin's Angel, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Gray, Francine du Plessix, Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope, Anchor Books: New York, 1990.

Kon, Igor and James Riordan, Sex and Russian Society, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, Indiana, 1993.

Petrushevskaya, Ludmila. The Time: Night

Reed, John. Ten Days That Shook The World

Remnick, David, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Vintage: New York, 1994.

Remnick, David, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, Vintage: New York, 1998.

Thubron, Colin, Where Nights are Longest: Travels by Car through Western Russia, Atlantic Monthly Press: New York, 1984.

Zbarsky, Ilya, Lenin's Embalmers. The Harvill Press, London, 1997.

china

Jasper Becker, The Chinese, New York: The Free Press 2000.

Ian Buruma, Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing, New York: Random House 2001.

Chang, Jung, Wild Swans, Anchor Books/Doubleday: New York, 1992.

Hinsch, Brett, Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, University of California Press: Berkeley, 1990.

Kristof, Nicholas and Sheryl Wudunn, China Wakes, Vintage: New York, 1995.

Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China, New York: Pantheon 2001.

Mao Zedong, The Little Red Book.

Minh, Ann Chee, Red Azalea, Berkley Publishing Group: Berkley, 1995.

Minh, Ann Chee, Madame Mao.

Salisbury, Harrison, The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng, Avon Books: New York, 1993.

Danny Schechter, Falun Gong's Challenge to China, New York: Akashic Books 2000.

Orville Schell, Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Snow, Edgar, Red Star Over China.

Tsu, Lao, Tao Te Ching, Vintage: New York, 1989.

Wong, Jan, Red China Blues, Anchor Books/Double Day: New York, 1997.

Zha, Jianying, China Pop, The New Press: New York, 1995.

cuba

Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, New York: Grove Press, 1997.

Christopher P. Baker, Cuba Handbook, Chico, California: Moon Travel Handbooks, 1997.

Ann Louise Bardach, Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, New York: Random House 2002.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers

Garcia, Cristina, Dreaming in Cuban

Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea

Miller, Tom, Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels through Castro's Cuba, Atheneum: New York, 1992.

Hugh Thomas, Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom, New York: De Capo Press, 1998.

Tad Szulc, Fidel: A Critical Portrait

other good stuff

Lederer, William and Eugene Burdick. The Ugly American. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 1958.

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. The Communist Manifesto

Orwell, George. 1984. Signit Classic, New York. 1949.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm