Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in a Deep Heartland

ISBN-13: 9781848857834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Susan Richards

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Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with their new ways of living. Here, Susan Richards demonstrates how in Russia the past and present cannot be separated.

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Map List of Main Characters Preface 1992-3 There be Monsters Benya’s Ark Visions & Fakes Opening the Cages False Pregnancy The Red Cardinal A-Little-Bit-Me The Other Side of Despair Tied Back to Back Turning Russia Round The Devil’s Tune An Abyss of Stars A Piece of Green Pummice Siberian Cassandra Connoisseur of Silences The Art of Mind Control 1994-6 Legend of the Golden Woman The Path Not Taken The Lost Heart of Russia Russia’s Quakers In the Wilderness The Time of the Antichrist Photography is a Sin! Music of the Forest 1995 The Dark Side 1996 Creeping Fascism Banging the Table 1997-8 In Search of the Russian Idea The Prodigal Returns Building Heaven or Hell Touching the Cosmos Riding Two Realities Ticket to the End of the Earth Russian Orestes A Country Doing Cold Turkey Society of Original Harmony Eating Children Singing Cedars? The Twelve-Step Cure Music of the Spheres 1998 Looking for Mother Olga The Goddess & Baba Yaga Lifting Zina’s Curse 1999-2004 Cordelia of the Steppes Freedom is Slavery My Dream House Theirs Not to Reason Why One Small Mend in the Past 2005-07 Fairy Tale in Dubious Taste The Two-Plank Bridge St Seraphim & the Bomb The Crooked & the Beautiful Glimpses of Grace Finding the Golden Woman Part Six 2008 How about a Riddle? The Worm Turns The Price of Dreams Pilnyak’s Island Festival of Dead Leaves