Russia Starts Here Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire - Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Prize 2025
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36222
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.07.2026
Abbildungen
30-35 black and white photographs
Verlag
BloomsburySeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B/H)
19.3/12.9/2.3 cm
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264 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4729-9133-1
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES DEBUT NON-FICTION PRIZE 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026
'compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES
'piercingly perceptive' THE TIMES
'insightful' THE SPECTATOR
Returning to an overlooked region on the edge of Russia, Howard Amos sets out on a quest to understand the country he once called home.
On Russia's European borderlands, people live their lives among the ruins of successive empires. Pskov, an old Slavic land of forgotten stories and faded waysides, has weathered the tides of history. Once a thriving nexus of trade and cultural exchange, today it is one of the poorest and most rapidly depopulating places of this vast nation. To understand the darkness that has captured Russia, Howard Amos journeys through a landscape of small towns, re-wilding fields and dilapidated churches.
This is a lyrical portrait of Russia where it meets NATO and the EU - a place of frontiers and boundaries that reveals unfamiliar and uncomfortable truths. In a country where history has been erased, manipulated and marginalised, the voices Howard Amos spotlights are a powerful antidote against forgetting.
From the last inhabitants of a dying village to the long-term residents of a psychiatric hospital and a museum curator fighting local opposition to chronicle Pskov's forgotten Jewish heritage, Howard Amos uncovers compelling stories that are shaped by violence, tragedy and loss. He also encounters some of the powerful men who have loomed over Pskov leaving a troubling legacy in their wake, from far-right politicians to Putin's personal priest.
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