Granta 64: Russia, the Wild East. [Winter 1998].

Paperback. 8vo. 256pp. Pictorial stiff card wraps. With b/w photos. Notes on Contributors.

A quarterly magazine of new writing, this issue focusing on post-communist Russia, with its society, economy, and politics in free-fall following its twin experiments with totalitarianism and Wild-West capitalism.

Contents: "Siberia" by Colin Thubron; "Survivors" by Angus Macqueen; "Moscow Dynamo" by Victor Pelevin; "Burying the Bones" by Orlando Figes; "The Lost Boys" by Anna Pyasetskaya and Heidi Bradner; "The River Potudan" by Andrei Platonov; "My Grandmother, the Censor" by Masha Gessen; "The Last Eighteen Drops" by Vitali Vitaliev; "Panorama" a photo essay by John Ranard; "Peter Truth" by Charlotte Hobson; "The Romanovs Come to Stay" by Frances Welch; "St Nikolai Returns" a photo essay by Larry Towell. From Elsewhere: "Naples is Closed" by Barry Unsworth.

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