Moscow Calling: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
by Angus Roxburgh
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In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has translated Tolstoy, met four successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been arrested by Chechen thugs. During the Cold War he was wooed by the KGB, who then decided he would make a lousy spy and expelled him from the country. In Moscow Calling Roxburgh presents his Russia - not the Russia of news reports, but a quirky, crazy, exasperating, beautiful, tumultuous world that show more in four decades has changed completely, and yet in some ways not at all. From the dark, fearful days of communism and his adventures as a correspondent covering the Soviet Union's collapse into chaos, to his frustrating work as a media consultant to Putin's Kremlin, his memoir offers a unique, fascinating and at times hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ever, is of global political significance. show lessTags
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Very good but could have been better. Memoirs of a journalist specialising in Russia. But someone who was fascinated by Russia who became a journalist to enable him to live there and learn more. Not a journalist who became a Russian expert. Only at the beginning and end does his lifelong fascination with Russian culture shine through. The middle sections are cut and paste chapters from his library of his own reports. Pity. Maybe one day he'll just write a book about Russia and explain it all to us.
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Angus Roxburgh is one of Britain's most distinguished foreign correspondents. An author and renowned journalist, he was the Sunday Times Moscow Correspondent in the mid-1980s and the BBC's Moscow correspondent during the Yeltsin years.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Travel, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 947.085092 — History & geography History of Europe Eastern European Counties and Russia Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1953-1991
- LCC
- DK288 .R693 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics History Soviet regime, 1918-1991
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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