The fascinating memoir of a journalist who in 1988 went to the Soviet Union to write about it . . . and fell in love with both Russia and an extraordinary woman. Sensing that something was happening in the land of Mikhail Gorbachev, Jo Durden-Smith became a part of the lives of a number of Russians, including Yelena, the woman he was to marry.
The author spent much of 1989 and 1990 living within the Muscovite community and came into contact with people at all levels, from pimps to philosophers. He provides a portrait of a society which is struggling to survive the traumas and changes of the Gorbachev years. In some ways more medieval and Oriental than modern and Western, Moscow is a ...
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