Farewell to Russia A Journey Through the Former USSR

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Title: Farewell to Russia A Journey Through the Former USSR
Author: Joe Luc Barnes
Category: History
Language: English | 324 str. Pages | ISBN: 1783969407


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By turns hilarious, angry, and revelatory, this is a striking portrait of a region the West still misunderstands-and a warning of what happens when empires fall apart but their cultural habits refuse to die.
Snow, concrete, the KGB: that's the cliché of the Soviet Union. But its collapse in 1991 sparked a story at once complicated 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 its ashes?

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.

Traveling...