Rent Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall

Synopsis

'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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