From the Yaroslavsky Station: Russia Perceived
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Book Overview
Here is the eagerly awaited third edition of the book Harrison Salisbury called "a magnificent portrait of contemporary Russia." Veteran journalist Elizabeth Pond has brought her invaluable text completely up to date to include current developments in the politics, leadership, and society of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. From Moscow to the eastern edge of Siberia, Pond reports on such topics as the intelligentsia, the economic position of the consumer, Soviet domestic and foreign policy, ethnic minorities, and the position of women in society.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0876633688
ISBN13:9780876633687
Release Date:January 1981
Publisher:Universe Publishing(NY)
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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A superb description of the pre-collapse Soviet Union
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a beautifully written, truly wonderful book. Ms. Pond took a train trip on the Trans-Siberian railroad, and wrote fascinating and erudite vignettes based loosely on each of her stops, from Moscow to the far East.I've read widely about Communism. But I must say that, with the exception of Solzhenitsyn's works and Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, I have never read any book that contributed as much to my understanding of this morally bankrupt, dying empire.
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