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Title: Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down by Rodric Braithwaite ISBN: 0300094965 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb! The Iron Lady's Ambassador to Moscow.
Comment: This was a wonderful book! Fresh, fast-paced, fascinating and immensely funny. The author was Maggie Thatcher's man in Moscow, he has an intimate knowledge of the Russian people and a great deal of experience in-country. His English humor (humour?) makes this book not just a chronicle of events, but a real gem. Examples...when visiting Kiev, he is invited to visit the musuem of UFO's which includes an exhibit of foot long iron bar munching rats from outer space, Ambasador Braithwaite dryly comments that although he would love to attend, he just can't seem to fit it into his schedule. When Moscow Radio plays excerpts from Pushkin in the throes of the 1991 aborted coup, he comments--who else but the Russians would air poetry at such a time? About half the length of Jack Matlock's epic "Anatomy on an Empire", (his colleague and apparent twin in the minds of the Russian people) Braithwaite's book is more accesible, and given in a lively style. While I do not agree 100% with all of his analysis, I do find this a supberb book and a must have for anyone who wants a Westerner's guide to understanding Russia.
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Title: Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes ISBN: 0805057838 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy by Strobe Talbott ISBN: 0375507140 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman ISBN: 0393051447 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Putin's Russia by Lilia Shevtsova, Liliia Fedorovna Shevtsova ISBN: 0870032011 Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Winston Churchill: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives) by John Keegan ISBN: 0670030791 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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