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**Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize** More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contained beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious closed cities, and some of the most polluted places on earth. Garrels’s goal was to chart the aftershocks of the U.S.S.R.’s collapse by traveling to Russia’s heartland. Returning again and again, Garrels found that the area’s new freedoms and opportunities were exciting but also traumatic. As the economic collapse of the early 1990s abated, the city of Chelyabinsk became richer and more cosmopolitan, even as official corruption and intolerance for minorities grew more entrenched. Sushi restaurants proliferated; so did shakedowns. In the neighboring countryside, villages crumbled into the ground. Far from the glitz of Moscow, the people of Chelyabinsk were working out their country’s destiny, person by person. In __Putin Country__, Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of Middle Russia. We meet upwardly mobile professionals, impassioned activi

Who reads Putin country : a journey into the real Russia?

Author

Anne Garrels

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374710439

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.95 / 5 (875 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14