Requiem in red
Subtitle: death of the Soviet empire : a historical novel
By: by John Riedel.
Series: East European monographs ;; no. 565
Publisher: East European Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Boulder, Colo.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Cold War -- Fiction.; Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945-1989 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Death of the Soviet empire
Description: "Requiem in Red is, at once, a historical novel, family epic, and espionage thriller. Riedel uses fictional characters to take the reader inside significant events that occurred in Eastern Europe, beginning with the formation of a Ukrainian Waffen-SS division during the latter stages of World War II.

A thin generational thread then links certain characters from this period to others whose presence in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and Prague during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, forms the backdrop for a CIA exfiltration operation launched during the failed coup d'etat in Moscow in August 1991."--BOOK JACKET.