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Black Earth - A Journey Through Russia After the Fall (Paperback, New Ed)
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Black Earth - A Journey Through Russia After the Fall (Paperback, New Ed)
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"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia
meets the old," writes Robert Legvold ("Foreign Affairs") about
Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent
and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of
nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and unflinching reportage.
Throughout, Meier captures the country's present limbo a land rich
in potential but on the brink of staggering back into tyranny in an
account that is by turns heartrending and celebratory, comic and
terrifying. A 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember.
""Black Earth" is the best investigation of post-Soviet Russia
since David Remnick's "Resurrection." Andrew Meier is a truly
penetrating eyewitness." Robert Conquest, author of "The Great
Terror"; "If President Bush were to read only the chapters
regarding Chechnya in Meier's "Black Earth," he would gain a
priceless education about Putin's Russia." Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Even after the fall of Communism, most American reporting on
Russia often goes no further than who's in and who's out in the
Kremlin and the business oligarchy. Andrew Meier's Russia reaches
far beyond . . . this Russia is one where, as Meier says, history
has a hard time hiding. Readers could not easily find a livelier or
more insightful guide." Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's
Ghost" and "The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin" "From the
pointless war in Chechnya to the wild, exhilarating, and
dispiriting East and the rise of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB
officer it's all here in great detail, written in the layers the
story deserves, with insight, passion, and genuine affection."
Michael Specter, staff writer, "The New Yorker"; co-chief, "The New
York Times" Moscow Bureau, 1995-98. " Meier's] knowledge of the
country and his abiding love for its people stands out on every
page of this book....But it is his linguistic fluency, in
particular, which enables Mr. Meier to dig so deeply into Russia's
black earth." "The Economist" "A wonderful travelogue that depicts
the Russian people yet again trying to build a new life without
really changing their old one." William Taubman, "The New York
Times" Book Review."
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