Farewell to Russia

A Journey Through the Former USSR

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<p><strong><em>*</em></strong></p><p>'Brilliantly introduces us to faraway countries about which we should know more.' <strong>Tim Marshall, author of <em>Prisoners of Geography</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>They might have said goodbye to the USSR </em>-<em> but can they ever say farewell to Russia?</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Snow, concrete, the KGB: that's the cliché of the Soviet Union. But its collapse in 1991 sparked a story at once messier and more compelling than any stereotype. Thirty-five years on, Moscow may brim with champagne bars and blacked-out Mercedes - but what became of the other fourteen states that emerged from the ashes?</p><p>In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Joe Luc Barnes crossed the former USSR to find out, from the gleaming towers of Azerbaijan to the former gulags of Kazakhstan, tech-hungry Estonia to the minarets of Uzbekistan. Along the way, he finds epic mountains, cobblestoned old towns and storied Silk Road cities - not to mention Georgian wine, Armenian brandy and vodka in industrial supply.</p><p>Travelling thousands of miles, he gathers a chorus of voices: nomads in mountain yurts, TikTok-fuelled activists, small-town taxi drivers and many who still look uneasily over their shoulder for the secret police. With insight, empathy and a healthy dose of mordant wit, he asks what has happened - and why - to the people and their hopes and dreams since the great promise of independence.</p><p>By turns hilarious, angry and heart-stopping, this is a darkly comic, deeply human portrait of a region the West still misunderstands - and a warning of what happens when empires break but the habits of empire refuse to die.</p><p><strong>If you loved <em>The Silk Roads</em>, <em>Nothing to Envy</em> or <em>The Places in Between</em>, and have a soft spot for Bill Bryson, clear space on your shelf: this is the book for you.</strong></p><ul><li>Joe Luc Barnes speaks fluent Russian and is one of the few people, if not the only person, to ha

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781783969401

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

239 x 157 x 33 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Elliott & Thompson Ltd