Red Square Blues [electronic resource] : A Beginner's Guide to the Decline & Fall of the Soviet Union
Kim Traill2010
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A beginner's guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union In 1990, Kim
traill set off for the former Soviet Union with a smattering of vocabulary, a
lust for wild adventure and a swag of youthful idealism about the great
Communist experiment. It would take some time for the scales to fall from her
eyes. Over the next 17 years Kim discovered a Russia few tourists see. She ate
some of the world's worst food, went to places few of us would venture, made
good friends and met a lot of seriously dodgy people. On collective farms and on
40-hour train journeys, at red carpet parties and in marriage agencies, on
nuclear bases and in the frozen wastes of Siberia, she navigated the country's
changing fortunes, bearing witness to the horrific events of war, nuclear
accidents, drug and alcohol addiction and ethnic rivalries. She even tried to
make herself into a good Russian woman, abandoning her uniform of jeans, boots
and Russian prison coat for heels and a skin-tight dress. RED ...
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Author:
Kim Traill, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : 4th Estate, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (528 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780730450009
Language:
English
BRN:
433801
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