Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union Mitchell Beazley and resolution of disputes through

and resolution of disputes through third-party settlement

evaluate the meanings of home

she's let herself slip away

drawn from the messages he writes to his staff

Description: Immigrants and their stories often go unheard

Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union Mitchell Beazley and resolution of disputes throughThe implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and hard drinking bulldozer, wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by