Author: Alex Shishin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059538529X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him across the vastness of Siberia. Fluent in Russian, the young Russian American converses with countless citizens from every strata of Soviet society. An extended side trip to Poland brings him in contact with a simmering revolution. Everywhere he goes, Shishin meets ordinary people imbued with a generosity that transcends all political systems and times. "Alex's readiness to accept people without judging them enables his fellow travelers to open up to him and talk about things that affect their lives: politics, economics, their harsh memories of war, and their deep desires for peace. His vivid portraits of the people he meets make you feel as if you are sitting together with him, hearing the voices, enjoying the food and drinks, and feeling the motion of the train traveling over the tracks.. This is a moving account of the writer's pilgrimage to know himself through human encounters." -Peter Sano, author of 1,000 Days in Siberia: The Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW
Rossiya
Author: Alex Shishin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059538529X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him across the vastness of Siberia. Fluent in Russian, the young Russian American converses with countless citizens from every strata of Soviet society. An extended side trip to Poland brings him in contact with a simmering revolution. Everywhere he goes, Shishin meets ordinary people imbued with a generosity that transcends all political systems and times. "Alex's readiness to accept people without judging them enables his fellow travelers to open up to him and talk about things that affect their lives: politics, economics, their harsh memories of war, and their deep desires for peace. His vivid portraits of the people he meets make you feel as if you are sitting together with him, hearing the voices, enjoying the food and drinks, and feeling the motion of the train traveling over the tracks.. This is a moving account of the writer's pilgrimage to know himself through human encounters." -Peter Sano, author of 1,000 Days in Siberia: The Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059538529X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him across the vastness of Siberia. Fluent in Russian, the young Russian American converses with countless citizens from every strata of Soviet society. An extended side trip to Poland brings him in contact with a simmering revolution. Everywhere he goes, Shishin meets ordinary people imbued with a generosity that transcends all political systems and times. "Alex's readiness to accept people without judging them enables his fellow travelers to open up to him and talk about things that affect their lives: politics, economics, their harsh memories of war, and their deep desires for peace. His vivid portraits of the people he meets make you feel as if you are sitting together with him, hearing the voices, enjoying the food and drinks, and feeling the motion of the train traveling over the tracks.. This is a moving account of the writer's pilgrimage to know himself through human encounters." -Peter Sano, author of 1,000 Days in Siberia: The Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW
U.S.S.R.
Author: United States. Geographic Names Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
U.S.S.R., Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names: O-R. (ix, 705 p.)
Author: United States. Geographic Names Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Gazetteer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Transdex
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Daily Report
Author:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Arise, Rossiya-The Return of Russia to World Politics
Author: Marcus Papadopoulos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882383788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Russian politics and their return to the world stage.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882383788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Russian politics and their return to the world stage.
Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Slavonic Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
JPRS Report
Author:
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Category : Eurasia
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eurasia
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Reinventing Russia
Author: Yitzhak M. Brudny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Brudny argues that the rise of the Russian nationalist movement was a combined result of the reinvention of Russian national identity by a group of intellectuals, and the Communist Party's active support of this reinvention in order to gain greater political legitimacy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Brudny argues that the rise of the Russian nationalist movement was a combined result of the reinvention of Russian national identity by a group of intellectuals, and the Communist Party's active support of this reinvention in order to gain greater political legitimacy.