Russia : a long-shot romance
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Russia : a long-shot romance
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- Russia : a long-shot romance
- Title remainder
- a long-shot romance
- Statement of responsibility
- Jo Durden-Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When in 1988 Jo Durden-Smith undertook to write an article about Leningrad for an American travel magazine, the Soviet Union loomed like "a black hole on the edge of Europe . . . impenetrable and incomprehensible," yielding faint traces of meaning only "against the odds of the local gravity." From the moment he stepped off the airplane, Durden-Smith found himself as an unchaperoned (and unusually tall) Westerner in the early months of glasnost, to be a genuine curiosity, both on the street and at the gatherings of Russian intelligentsia to which he was graciously admitted
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 947.086
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DK510.29
- LC item number
- .D87 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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