Russia
Jo Durden-Smith · 1994
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About the book
When in 1988 Jo Durden-Smith undertook to write an article about Leningrad for an American travel magazine, the Soviet Union loomed like "a black hole on the edge of Europe . . . impenetrable and incomprehensible," yielding faint traces of meaning only "against the odds of the local gravity." From the moment he stepped off the airplane, Durden-Smith found himself as an unchaperoned (and unusually tall) Westerner in the early months of glasnost, to be a genuine curiosity, both on the street and at the gatherings of Russian intelligentsia to which he was graciously admitted.
Book details
- Year
- 1994
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN
- 9780394582573
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