Select an option to add this to your cart
The item can be ordered and may take two weeks to arrive in our shop.
An essential guide to the strange, sinister culture ofcontemporary Russia. When Jonathan Fink studied Russiain university in the 1990s he developed a passion for thecountry that seemed under Boris Yeltsin to throw off theshackles of repression. Thirty years later, he set out touncover through interviews the real heart of Russia, a country besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seatedparanoia, where crime is scarcely ever met withpunishment. This eminently readable book shows thatneed to look at the Kremlin's deeds and ignore theirwords as a rule to get to the truth.