How does Sam Hollis know that the reporter Mike Salerno is a graduate of Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School?

What reason does General Surikov give Sam for wanting to defect to the West?

What is the significance of the battlefield at Borodino?

Explain the importance of the color red in the novel.

In what way(s) are the American embassy personnel prisoners in the diplomatic compound?

How does Seth Alevy function as an unsympathetic character in the novel?

Why is Anna's antique shop in the Arbat shopping district important to Seth Alevy and the CIA?

What differentiates the village of Yablonya from more urban areas like Moscow or Minsk?

What is a Russophile? Which characters in the novel, if any, could be classified as such?

Explain the irony of the name "The Charm School."

Why is it paradoxical that many of the American prisoners at...