Parting With Illusions

Parting With Illusions is an autobiography book by television journalist Vladimir Posner.

About

It was originally written in English and published in the US by publishing house Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990, with the subtitle The extraordinary life and controversial views of the Soviet Union's leading commentator. Thanks to the American fame Posner as a leading US-Soviet television bridges, the book received considerable attention (e.g., for 12 weeks in a book kept in bestseller list New York Times^[1]). According to the reviewer Los Angeles Times, however, the book was a "Unabashed self-promotion".^[2]

In recognition of the author's many years he thought about the form in which the book could be presented to Russian readers and in 2008 moved it into Russian (having supplied the text of twenty years ago by later comments), and only in 2012 he published the Russian edition of the publication.^[3] The book was published in Moscow in "Astrel" publishing house. The book used photos from the personal archive of the author. Design of the Russian edition met with sharp criticism of the art director of the publishing house Penguin Books Paul Buckley: "Everything here are boring. Photo is boring, font is boring, layout is boring and who may be interested in such a book In the US? It would have died a slow death".^[4]

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