Pravda ha ha : true travels to the end of Europe /
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year, Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were, for most Brits and Americans, part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts a...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Russia : Under Moscow ; Over Russia ; Putin's pecker ; Russia, my Russia ; Terrible beauty ; Tell me another one ; Stranger in Moscow ; Beat it ; Tentacles ; Under the skin ; Lies lies lies ; Sunday in St. Petersburg ; Cold War 2.0 ; Party party (like it's 1969) ; Beauty and the beast ; Angels ; London road
- Estonia : Home ; Soviet secret barbecue society
- Kalingrad : The others
- Transnistria : Back in the USSR ; Fear is a habit
- Ukraine : Theatre of bad dreams ; All that glitters
- Hungary : Not quite spring ; Altogether now ; Down and out in Buda and Kispet
- Poland : Independence day ; Devil's domain ; Dementia
- Germany : Beyond the horizon ; Odysseys ; Wir sind das Volk
- Switzerland : Waiting for Gorby
- Britain : Jolly ol' England ; Fog in the channel.