The author spent much of 1989 and 1990 living within the Muscovite
community and came into contact with people at all levels, from
pimps to philosophers. He provides a portrait of a society which is
struggling to survive the traumas and changes of the Gorbachev
years. In some ways more medieval and Oriental than modern and
Western, Moscow is a city in which tales of flying saucers and
masonic conspiracies co-exist with endless queues, corruption,
anti-semitism and a black market in guns. Durden-Smith also
discovered in Moscow an intellectual passion and energy which puts
most Western capitals to shame and which makes Moscow not only one
of the most important, but also one of the most complex,
contradictory and fascinating cities on earth.
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