| Description |
viii, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index. |
| Contents |
Kaliningrad: the amber-tinted gaze of an empire -- Kiev: the mother of all Russian cities or the threat to mother Russia? -- Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky Islands, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow: Kremlin time, or Russia's clock of clocks -- Ulyanovsk (Simbirsk) and Samara (Kuibyshev): cities of the mighty Volga -- Perm, Yekaterinburg, and Tyumen: the Urals' holy trinity -- Omsk: a mixed metaphor of Putin's empire -- Novosibirsk: a story of science and serendipity -- Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, and Lake Baikal: Asian abodes of the spirit -- Blagoveshchensk, Heihe, and Yakutsk: roughing it -- Vladivostok: rule the East! -- Magadan and Butugychag: from the Gulag capital to the Valley of Death -- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: the very far East. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.
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Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962- -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
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Tayler, Jeffrey -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) -- History, Local.
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Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- -- Political and social views.
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Regionalism -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
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Russia (Federation) -- Relations.
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| Added Author |
Tayler, Jeffrey, author.
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| ISBN |
9781250163233 (hardcover) |
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