In Putin's footsteps : searching for the soul of an empire across Russia's eleven time zones /

In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current affairs and history, showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades. With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grandd...

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Main Authors: Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1964- (Author), Tayler, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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