Imperium Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski Imperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of this century -- the bureaucratic, amorphous mass of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. During the year the Berlin Wall came down, as the empire convulsed and died, Kapuscinski talked to hundreds of ordinary people about t... more »heir extraordinary lives and the terror from which they were emerging.« less