Russia Up Close And Personal: An American Living in Russia For Good

An ordinary girl in America by chance majors in Russian in college. When graduating from college, she learns for the first time that one of her uncles helped Russian aristocrats find a new home abroad after the revolution in 1917. Later she gets a job in the Soviet Union, "the Evil Empire", and finds herself between two countries in a cold war. In Moscow she experiences what it is like to live behind the iron curtain in a country with a "planned economy". She is there all through the period when Russia is going over to a market economy, feeling "shock therapy" on her own skin. In spite of this she doesn't leave Russia but decides to live on there.

Author: Lynne Hulett
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 06/25/2017
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781389901881