Russia Up Close And Personal: An American Living in Russia For Good (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781389901881)

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
ISBN-10: 1389901882
ISBN-13: 9781389901881
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2017
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d