Through dark days and white nights : four decades observing a changing Russia : impressions and reflections / / Naomi F. Collins

• Autore: Collins Naomi F
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Scarith, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 914
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Description and travel; Soviet Union Social conditions 1970-1991; Russia (Federation) Description and travel; Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991-
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1 Encounters with a Closed Society -- 2 Returning to a Stagnant, Gray Land -- 3 Caught in the Coup -- 4 Witnessing the Century's Close -- Epilogue: Cycles, Generations, and Journeys -- Postscript.
• Sommario/riassunto: This memoir of an American woman's life in Moscow traces the social and cultural evolution of Russia from the era of Krushchev to the era of Putin. In the mid-1960s, Naomi Collins was a graduate student at Moscow State University. As the 21st century began, she was the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia. In this insightful memoir, she shares her reflections and impressions of life as an American woman living in the Russian capital over the course of four decades. Rather than retracing the economic and political events of the period, Collins focuses her narrative on daily as it changed over the years. She offers fascinating anecdotal snapshots that reveal rare insight into the evolving state of the nation. "This book is like a script for a documentary spanning four decades when an especially astute and literate observer watched Russia emerge from stagnation and enter a period of dramatic economic, social, and political change and, on many fronts, upheaval." -Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution
• Titolo autorizzato: Through dark days and white nights
• ISBN: 9780984583263; 0984583262
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966674903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II