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Poutine Country: A Journey into the Real Russia par Garrels, Anne
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Bon
- Remarques du vendeur
- “Good pre-owned condition. No markings or highlighting.”
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781250118110
- Book Title
- Putin Country : a Journey Into the Real Russia
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Sociology / General, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Customs & Traditions, Russia
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contained beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious closed cities, and some of the most polluted places on earth. Garrels's goal was to chart the aftershocks of the U.S.S.R.'s collapse by traveling to Russia's heartland. Returning again and again, Garrels found that the area's new freedoms and opportunities were exciting but also traumatic. As the economic collapse of the early 1990s abated, the city of Chelyabinsk became richer and more cosmopolitan, even as official corruption and intolerance for minorities grew more entrenched. Sushi restaurants proliferated; so did shakedowns. In the neighboring countryside, villages crumbled into the ground. Far from the glitz of Moscow, the people of Chelyabinsk were working out their country's destiny, person by person. In Putin Country , Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of Middle Russia. We meet upwardly mobile professionals, impassioned activists who champion the rights of orphans and disabled children, and ostentatious mafiosi. We discover surprising subcultures, such as a vibrant underground gay community and a circle of determined Protestant evangelicals. And we watch doctors and teachers trying to cope with inescapable payoffs and institutionalized negligence. As Vladimir Putin tightens his grip on power and war in Ukraine leads to Western sanctions and a lower standard of living, the local population mingles belligerent nationalism with a deep ambivalence about their country's direction. Through it all, Garrels sympathetically charts an ongoing identity crisis. In the aftermath of the Soviet Union, what is Russia? What kind of pride and cohesion can it offer? Drawing on close friendships sustained over many years, Garrels explains why Putin commands the loyalty of so many Russians, even those who decry the abuses of power they regularly encounter. Correcting the misconceptions of Putin's supporters and critics alike, Garrels's portrait of Russia's silent majority is both essential and engaging reading at a time when cold war tensions are resurgent.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250118115
ISBN-13
9781250118110
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221624182
Product Key Features
Book Title
Putin Country : a Journey Into the Real Russia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Sociology / General, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Customs & Traditions, Russia
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dk651.C44g37 2017
Reviews
"A quiet masterwork . . . [Garrels] seems to have talked to everyone . . . She marshals her reporting, character after character, to build the evidence." -- Andrew Meier, Bookforum "Deeply informative . . . [Garrels] directs her considerable energy to people, not policy, and her readers are the better for it . . . With the clear eye of a good reporter, she could sometimes see dramatic improvements--and at other times, disappointing setbacks. She made many friends and, through her, so do we." --Marvin Kalb, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas "Fluent in Russian, Garrels has needed no translator and developed over the years many connections in the region. She tries to be hopeful, but for her fellow Russophiles (I count myself one), Putin Country is devastating . . . Garrels keeps her cool and listens quietly as she gathers locals'' narratives and opinions, no matter how disturbing . . . Two of the best chapters, "The Taxi Driver" and "The Forensic Expert," are like nonfictional short stories, wherein we become familiar with the long arcs of the protagonists'' tumultuous lives." --Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor "If you want to understand Putin''s Russia, read this book. Anne Garrels burrows deep into the heartland and enlists a diverse cast of authentic Russians to show why Putin happened, how he remains popular, and what might threaten his hold on power." --Bill Keller, editor in chief of The Marshall Project "More than twenty years ago, Anne Garrels began visiting the formerly ''secret'' city of Chelyabinsk, closed to foreigners because of its military and industrial installations. Like the miners in that long-suffering city, she dug deep into the lives of the people and she kept going back to talk with them, charting their evolution from Soviet citizens to citizens of a new Russia. With great journalistic skill, Garrels helps us understand the complex emotions of people still in transition, trying to define what it means to be Russian." --Jill Dougherty, former CNN foreign affairs correspondent " Putin Country is brilliant storytelling. Save yourself a trip to Chelyabinsk--Anne Garrels gives you the grime and glitz, the hangovers and heartbreak, of today''s Russia, and all without a visa!" --Stephen Sestanovich, author of Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama and U.S. ambassador-at-large to the former Soviet Union, 1997-2001 "Anne Garrels''s gripping account of people in Russia''s heartland is a fascinating book. It shows us a different Russia from the one most observers see in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand Putin''s Russia." --Jack F. Matlock, Jr., author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended and U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991 "A critical and crucial study of a country with which America has always had a volatile connection, Garrels''s essays cover vital ground and are essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the myriad issues that inform U.S.-Russian relations." --Carol Haggas, Booklist (starred) "Former NPR foreign correspondent Garrels offers finely delineated, meticulously researched dispatches from a region in Russia that seemed to her both typical of a certain Russian provincialism and arbitrarily chosen: Chelyabinsk, on the southern edge of the Ural Mountains . . . In essence, Garrels shows how the gloomy sense of ''Russian fatalism'' poisons all aspects of society. A collection of scrupulous, timely journalistic portraits." -- Kirkus Reviews "While Garrels takes pain to include voices willing to condemn Putin''s administration in her exposé, most of the interviewees are either unaware of, or willfully blind to, the worst of their government. This book persuasively asserts that too little has changed in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union." -- Publishers Weekly, "A quiet masterwork . . . [Garrels] seems to have talked to everyone . . . She marshals her reporting, character after character, to build the evidence." -- Andrew Meier, Bookforum "If you want to understand Putin's Russia, read this book. Anne Garrels burrows deep into the heartland and enlists a diverse cast of authentic Russians to show why Putin happened, how he remains popular, and what might threaten his hold on power." --Bill Keller, editor in chief of The Marshall Project "More than twenty years ago, Anne Garrels began visiting the formerly 'secret' city of Chelyabinsk, closed to foreigners because of its military and industrial installations. Like the miners in that long-suffering city, she dug deep into the lives of the people and she kept going back to talk with them, charting their evolution from Soviet citizens to citizens of a new Russia. With great journalistic skill, Garrels helps us understand the complex emotions of people still in transition, trying to define what it means to be Russian." --Jill Dougherty, former CNN foreign affairs correspondent " Putin Country is brilliant storytelling. Save yourself a trip to Chelyabinsk--Anne Garrels gives you the grime and glitz, the hangovers and heartbreak, of today's Russia, and all without a visa!" --Stephen Sestanovich, author of Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama and U.S. ambassador-at-large to the former Soviet Union, 1997-2001 "Anne Garrels's gripping account of people in Russia's heartland is a fascinating book. It shows us a different Russia from the one most observers see in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand Putin's Russia." --Jack F. Matlock, Jr., author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended and U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991 "A critical and crucial study of a country with which America has always had a volatile connection, Garrels's essays cover vital ground and are essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the myriad issues that inform U.S.-Russian relations." --Carol Haggas, Booklist (starred) "Former NPR foreign correspondent Garrels offers finely delineated, meticulously researched dispatches from a region in Russia that seemed to her both typical of a certain Russian provincialism and arbitrarily chosen: Chelyabinsk, on the southern edge of the Ural Mountains . . . In essence, Garrels shows how the gloomy sense of 'Russian fatalism' poisons all aspects of society. A collection of scrupulous, timely journalistic portraits." -- Kirkus Reviews "While Garrels takes pain to include voices willing to condemn Putin's administration in her exposé, most of the interviewees are either unaware of, or willfully blind to, the worst of their government. This book persuasively asserts that too little has changed in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union." -- Publishers Weekly
Table of Content
Contents 1. Chaos 2. Stability 3. Identity 4. The Taxi Driver 5. A Gay Life 6. The Russian Family 7. Stubborn Parents 8. The Doctors 9. The Addicts 10. School houses and Barracks 11. The Believers 12. The Muslim Community 13. The Human Rights Activists 14. The Forensic Expert 15. Freedom of Speech 16. Nuclear Nightmare 17. Changing Landscapes 18. The Red Lines Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2017
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947/.43
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23
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