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    In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
    In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
    In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
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    In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

    Written by Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler

    Narrated by Kathleen Gati

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    About this audiobook

    In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.

    With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones.

    After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia’s eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year’s Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia’s eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country’s outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage.

    Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 19, 2019
    ISBN9781721342570
    In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
    Author

    Nina Khrushcheva

    NINA KHRUSHCHEVA is the author of Imagining Nabokov and The Lost Khrushchev, and a Professor of International Affairs at New School University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times among others.

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    • 5/5
      It was a fascinating journey around Russia and to its borders.
    • 1/5
      Full of lies and bias. Why didn’t the author mention the truth about the Donbass, the referendum in Crimea, the Massacre at the Trade House in Odessa, the Neonazi Azov para military group? The coup d’etat behind the so called “Euro Maidan”? The 14,000 civilian casualties caused by Kiev’s regime in Luhansk and Donetsk? Not worth recommending.

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    • 5/5
      If you only read one book on Russia this year, let it be this one.
    • 5/5
      Great book about the people, the leaders, and how they think. I am very vext about their thoughts and actions but thanks for digging deep into their ideology and daily norms.