Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR
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A striking portrait-by turns angry, hilarious, and revelatory-of a region the West still misunderstands, and a warning of what happens when empires fall apart but their cultural habits refuse to die.
Snow, concrete, the KGB: that's the cliché of the Soviet Union. But its collapse in 1991 sparked a story at once complicated and more compelling than any stereotype. Thirty-five years on, Moscow may brim with champagne bars and blacked-out Mercedes-but what became of the other fourteen states th...
Snow, concrete, the KGB: that's the cliché of the Soviet Union. But its collapse in 1991 sparked a story at once complicated and more compelling than any stereotype. Thirty-five years on, Moscow may brim with champagne bars and blacked-out Mercedes-but what became of the other fourteen states th...






















