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Russia

A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People

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Russia

Written by: Jonathan Dimbleby
Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
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 In this timely and revealing portrait, distinguished author and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers 10,000 miles, from Murmansk in the Arctic Circle to the Asian city of Vladivostok, in an attempt to get beneath the skin of modern Russia.

Travelling by road, rail and boat, his epic journey takes him from the splendour of St Petersburg to remote parts of Siberia. Jonathan was the only British television journalist to interview President Gorbachev during the Cold War, and, returning to Russia for the first time since those days, he discovers a land transformed.

But despite economic progress, he finds aspects of Russian society deeply troubling, and takes an unflinchingly critical look at the way Russia has been run during the Putin years. For Jonathan, crossing the immense Russian landmass became as much an interior journey as an exterior one.

Filled with a dazzling array of historical and literary references, this is a riveting and illuminating account of modern Russia. (Please note: at the author's request some autobiographical material has been excluded from this recording.)

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It is a very detailed travel narrative through the largest country on earth - Russia. Well written and narrated. Author goes to a lot of unexplored or under exploreed areas of Russia. Must read if you're curious about the vastness of Russia.

Still may be because it's so big; he misses a lot of places like-
1)North Eastern part of Siberia is completely avoided 2) Cities like Sochi, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk
3)Other northern parts of Russia except for Murmansk and nearby areas.

Also it's not clear how the author communicates with so many people when he clearly mentions he don't know Russian at the beginning itself.

The author has no respect for Russian political system and tries to impose his views of Democracy on every person he meets as well as the readers.

And not meaning to be offensive, there are a lot of Igors, Marias and Saschas and it becomes too confusing after a while.

A big book about the biggest country

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