Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Fatland Erika
Автор: Fatland, Erika Название: Sovietistan ISBN: 085705774X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857057747 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage
Автор: Fatland, Erika Название: Sovietistan ISBN: 0857057766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857057761 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 20240.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world.
Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan, she takes the reader on a compassionate and insightful journey to explore how their Soviet heritage has influenced these countries, with governments experimenting with both democracy and dictatorships.
In Kyrgyzstani villages, she meets victims of the tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea; she witnesses the fall of a dictator.
She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, and German Mennonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani plains 200 years ago. We learn how ancient customs clash with gas production and witness the underlying conflicts between ethnic Russians and the majority in a country that is slowly building its future in nationalist colors.
Once the frontier of the Soviet Union, life follows another pace of time. Amidst the treasures of Samarkand and the brutalist Soviet architecture, Sovietistan is a rare and unforgettable adventure.
Автор: Fatland, Erika Название: The Border - A Journey Around Russia ISBN: 0857057782 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857057785 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia`s bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way.
Автор: Fatland, Erika Название: The Border - A Journey Around Russia ISBN: 0857057804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857057808 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 20240.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Fatland, Erika Название: The Border - A Journey Around Russia ISBN: 0857057812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857057815 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 30360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Journey Around Russia: Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage
Автор: Fatland Erika Название: The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithu ISBN: 1643136569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643136561 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 32190.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe. Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been--and remains--a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? An astute and brilliant combination of lyric travel writing and modern history, The Border is a book about Russia without its author ever entering Russia itself. Fatland gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. As we follow Fatland on her journey, we experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. Sharply observed and wholly absorbing, The Border is a surprising new way to understand a broad part our world.
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