Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey…
"Between 1989 and 1991, Kapuscinski made a series of extended journeys through the disintegrating Soviet empire, and his account of these forms the heart of the book. Bypassing official institutions and itineraries, he traversed the Soviet territory alone, from the border of Pol…
A personal, detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire at the point of collapse. Kapuściński begins with his own childhood memories of the postwar Soviet occupation of Pinsk, in what was then Poland's eastern frontier, and takes us up to 1967, when, as…
Roots -- War, college, and basketball -- Joyce, Teddy, and journalism -- From Kohn to Khrushchev -- "Govorit Moskva, govorit Moskva" ("Moscow calling, Moscow calling") -- Destalinization = Destabilization -- The "thaw"--Zhukov to Poznan -- Into the heartland -- A summertime brea…
Roots -- War, college, and basketball -- Joyce, Teddy, and journalism -- From Kohn to Khrushchev -- "Govorit Moskva, govorit Moskva" ("Moscow calling, Moscow calling") -- Destalinization = Destabilization -- The "thaw"--Zhukov to Poznan -- Into the heartland -- A summertime brea…
"A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia?and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents. 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"?a time when Stalin?s dark legacy of dictatorsh…
1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--a time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by…