ImperiumImperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. With an Afterword by Margaret Atwood It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the centurythe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the entrance of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939, to just before the Berlin Wall came down, as the