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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:	Khrushcheva, Nina L., > 1964- > Travel > Russia (Federation) Tayler, Jeffrey > Travel > Russia (Federation) Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1952- > Political and social views. Russia (Federation) > Description and travel. Russia (Federation) > History, Local. Regionalism > Political aspects > Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991- Russia (Federation) > Relations. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union.

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.