Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the FallW. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 511 Seiten With the power of Lenin's Tomb and Balkan Ghosts, an illuminating portrait of contemporary Russia. A Decade after the Soviet Collapse, Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners--Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk. Sakhalin, and St. Petersburg--Andrew Meier presents a history of contemporary Russia. In Moscow and St. petersburg, Meier explores Russia's unbridled market and often lethal politics. From Chechnya, where he investigates the worst single-day massacre of civilians, to Norilsk, the world's northernmost city, Meier uncovers a common theme: the need to find meanign amid the Soviet ruins. In the tradition of Rebecca West's Black Lamb and crey Falcon, Black Earth is a penetrating view of the new Russia from a bold new voice in political journalism. |
Inhalt
Prologue | 3 |
Moscow Zero Gravity | 7 |
South To the Zone | 53 |
North To the SixtyNinth Parallel | 159 |
East To the Breaking Point | 233 |
West The Skazka | 309 |
Moscow Everything Is Normal | 385 |
Acknowledgments | 447 |
Notes | 451 |
Bibliography | 481 |
Photo Credits | 497 |
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