Excellent facial expressions sets this Soviet/Russian political doll apart from the usual. A visible troubled Gorbachev has a red sash with a yellow hammer and sickle and a button with the three-letter abbreviation for "Commonwealth of Independent States" (Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv), which was formed during the break-up of the Soviet Union. Yelstin, first president of the Russian Federation, sports the tri-color flag of Russia. Brezhnev is painted blue with medals, Stalin green with pipe, and a sinister Lenin in black.

Attractively painted and finished set. Hand painted, Moscow, early 1990s. 5 nest, 7 1/4" tall.