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Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
Español
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"EN LA rusia actual, INCLUSO LA DICTADURA SE CONVIERTE EN UN REALITY SHOW. Asesinos a sueldo con alma de artista, aspirantes a directores de teatro convertidos en titiriteros del Kremlin, supermodelos suicidas, Ángeles del Infierno que se creen guerreros sagrados y revolucionarios oligarcas: bienvenidos al corazón surrealista y deslumbrante de la Rusia del siglo xxi. Con La nueva Rusia, Peter Pomerantsev se sumerge en la Rusia más delirante: un...
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Language
English
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"After two and a half years as NPR's Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country--a 6,000-mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok--to speak with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. Reaching beyond the headline-grabbing protests in Moscow, Greene speaks with a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenager hawking 'space rocks' from last spring's meteor shower...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times--in 1995, 2005 and 2015--making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again to see how their lives had changed. Like the acclaimed British documentary series Seven Up!, she traces the ups and downs of ordinary people's lives, in the process painting a deeply nuanced portrait of modern Russia. From the caretakers of a lighthouse in Vladivostok, to the Jewish community...
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Language
English
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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show.
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the wild and bizarre heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power,...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003], ©1970
Language
English
Description
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. Sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and a fearless cri de cœur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian turn To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless and unrelenting attempt to document Putin's Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian...
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