Russia Up Close And Personal

Told she would be sent to Siberia... An offer from a Kremlin official... Living under Communism... perestroika... An ordinary girl in America by chance majors in Russian in college. When graduating from college, she learns for the first time that one of her uncles helped Russian aristocrats find a new home abroad after the revolution in 1917. Later she gets a job in the Soviet Union, "the Evil Empire", and finds herself between two countries in a cold war. In Moscow she experiences what it is like to live behind the iron curtain in a country with a "planned economy". She is there all through the period when Russia is going over to a market economy, feeling "shock therapy" on her own skin. In spite of this she doesn't leave Russia but decides to live on there. I am that girl and I have written the story of my life. But besides being a story about a life that is not your usual one, this book gives the reader an opportunity to learn about everyday life in the former Soviet Union and Russia today. And just as living here has opened my eyes to a different way of looking at things, this book may give Americans a different and perhaps surprising perspective on life in Russia.

• | Author: Lynne Hulett
• | Publisher: Blurb
• | Publication Date: Jun 14, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 100 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1389901882
• | ISBN-13: 9781389901881