In Putin's Footsteps
Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Two senior reporters on Russia and the former Soviet Union, including Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter, combine travelogue, current affairs, and history in a chronicle demonstrating how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture.
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.
Subjects:
Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1964- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
Tayler, Jeffrey -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- -- Political and social views.
Regionalism -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.
Russia (Federation) -- History, Local.
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Russia (Federation) -- Relations.
Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1964- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
Tayler, Jeffrey -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- -- Political and social views.
Regionalism -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.
Russia (Federation) -- History, Local.
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Russia (Federation) -- Relations.
ISBN:
9781250163233 (hardcover)
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HISTORY Europe Russia Khr | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.