"In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current
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English Pages viii, 308 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln : Illustrationen, Karte Year 2019
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 --
Epilogue: the past of the Russian future.