Behind the Red Veil  takes readers deep inside the Soviet mindset. In Leningrad, Moscow, and Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, I invited teachers and students to reveal their hopes and fears. They responded beyond all expectations. In Leningrad, to my green jacket; in Moscow, their outcry for democracy; and in Alma-Ata, eating apples in class while discussing reincarnation. 

In being with Russians, I was a fragment of a hologram; a fragment that revealed the whole. I continually searched for ways around the collective mindset surrounded by Communist propaganda. I engaged them with stories, humor, antics, and optimism. When I opened up, I activated their thinking. In return, they activated mine.