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Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.086
EAN: 9780393326413
ISBN: 0393326411
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 516
Publication Date: January 30, 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
"That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."—George Kennan
"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and unflinching reportage. Throughout, Meier captures the country's present limbo—a land rich in potential but on the brink of staggering back into tyranny—in an account that is by turns heartrending and celebratory, comic and terrifying. A 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. 13 photographs.
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Rating:  - A Macabre Travel Poetry
Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall
Black Earth represents perhaps one of the best possible examples of a travel book, written in the vein of such masters as Mr Kapuscinski ( Imperium ) and D. Remnick ( Lenin's Tomb ) , where the author describes for the first time places that usually do not appear on the first pages of daily news, places somehow forgotten , but still part of modern Russia , places that the existing nomenclature has simply deleted from being, sometimes ... Read More
Rating: - Intrepid, brave, intelligent
This is a superb travelogue of modern Russia, and the writer has a prose style that does justice to the subject. Engaging and exciting...
Rating: - Fascinating
The author travels all over Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. His trip to Chechnya is really eye-opening. If you're interested in Russia, I highly recommend this book.
Rating:  - Russia as it is
Meier writes about the transition pains that Russians have and are experiencing as he travels there from 1995 to 2002. From Chechnya to Sakhalin to Norlisk, Petersburg and Moscow, Meier meets with ordinary and not so ordinary Russians to get a sense of their new post-soviet existence. His knowledge of Russian history and literature makes the book even more interesting as he commonly draws from the past and literature to explain the Russian character. This is by far one of the best accounts on contemporary ... Read More
Rating: - Accurate portrayal of contemporary Russia
This book recounts the author's travels throughout Russia in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Overall, I think that Meier makes a worthwhile contribution to the already substantial number of journalistic travel narratives that focus on the post-Soviet realm. The book is divided into 6 chapters: the first and last ones discuss the author's time spent in Moscow, while the other 4 trace his visits to the southern, northern, eastern, and western edges of the country. His journey to the south takes him to Chechnya, ... Read More
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