|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works
|
Not currently available
Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R561
Discovery Miles 5 610
You Save: R93
(14%)
|
|
|
Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire (Hardcover)
 (sign in to rate)
List price R654
Loot Price R561
Discovery Miles 5 610
You Save R93 (14%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
For almost three years, as Moscow Correspondent for CBS News,
Richard Threlkeld was a close observer of the scene inside Russia
and many of its old Soviet allies. This broad canvas of a book is
his engaging memoir of life in the remains of the former Soviet
Empire during the waning years of Boris Yeltsin's regime. Through
colorful vignettes the reader is taken from the crime-ridden Wild,
Wild East of Siberia to the glitzy casino world of the new Russian
rich in Moscow. Along the way we visit the mountain people of
Azerbaijan, some of whom at age 120 are still alive and well, and
native Arctic tribes in the far North of Russia, who still live
much as America's Sioux or Cheyenne did two centuries ago.
Equally fascinating are the characters who people the murky world
of Kremlin politics. Dispatches goes behind the scenes to chronicle
the decline of "Czar Boris" as well as the intrigues of Russia's
new Rasputin, financier Boris Berezovsky and his ally, Yeltsin's
ambitious and willful daughter Tatyana.
But the real heroes and heroines of this story are the ordinary
Russians, long-suffering as always: The Kuzbass coalminers who line
up for cold cuts in lieu of a paycheck; the rural schoolteacher who
every day stoically instructs her shivering and hungry students;
and the fellow in Zaraisk who took his son with him into the voting
booth to show the boy "how this democracy idea works."
Threlkeld depicts a fascinating, sprawling land where the funny and
the tragic are ever side by side. And as with everything in Russia,
it is all larger than life.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(74)
