Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
by Irina Borogan
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"Our Dear Friends in Moscow tells the story of a group of young Russians, part of an idealistic generation who came of age in Moscow at the end of the twentieth century, just as the communist era imploded and a future full of potential, and uncertainty, stood in front of them. At home, civil war stalked the Russian border in Chechnya, and terrorism came to Moscow. More discreetly, the new Russian government began to pull back from reconciliation with the United States and the West; by the show more time of Vladimir Putin's second term as president, the country had embraced a kind of ethno-nationalism and was heading for war at home and abroad. The group is torn apart by the shift in Russia. Some flee; others become sinister agents of the ever more aggressive state. The center cannot hold"-- Provided by publisher. show lessTags
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- History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
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- 070.43 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Journalism Reporting
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