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In Putin's footsteps, searching for the soul of an empire across Russia's eleven time zones, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler

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In Putin's footsteps, searching for the soul of an empire across Russia's eleven time zones, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In Putin's footsteps

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler

Sub title

searching for the soul of an empire across Russia's eleven time zones

Summary

Two senior reporters on Russia and the former Soviet Union, including Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter, combine travelogue, current affairs, and history in a chronicle demonstrating how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture

Table Of Contents

Kaliningrad: the amber-tinted gaze of an empire -- Kiev: the mother of all Russian cities or the threat to mother Russia? -- Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky Islands, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow: Kremlin time, or Russia's clock of clocks -- Ulyanovsk (Simbirsk) and Samara (Kuibyshev): cities of the mighty Volga -- Perm, Yekaterinburg, and Tyumen: the Urals' holy trinity -- Omsk: a mixed metaphor of Putin's empire -- Novosibirsk: a story of science and serendipity -- Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, and Lake Baikal: Asian abodes of the spirit -- Blagoveshchensk, Heihe, and Yakutsk: roughing it -- Vladivostok: rule the East! -- Magadan and Butugychag: from the Gulag capital to the Valley of Death -- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: the very far East

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