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Waking The Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia
by RANDOLPH, ELEANOR
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684809125
- ISBN 13
- 9780684809120
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing OF fIRST eDITION. . Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Burgundy quarter cloth w/gilt titles, burgundy boards, very clean and unmarked, front corners gently bumped. Light red star stamped on lower edge. Tight and solid. Endpaper scuffed on upper corner. Pages very clean and free from any markings. Jacket is unclipped, clean, with slight wrinkling on top edge and slight chipping around spine heel. An account of how ordinary Russians are struggled to survive the revolution from Communism to Capitalism in the 1990s. Reporter Eleanor Randolph takes the reader to Soviet hospitals and new Russian sex clinics, to old communal apartments and new suburbs, to decrepit schools and new private academies, from the Arctic Circle to the southern farmlands, all the while talking to people from all walks of life. 431 pages with Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1996, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002500
- Title
- Waking The Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia
- Author
- RANDOLPH, ELEANOR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684809125
- ISBN 13
- 9780684809120
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- RUSSIA RUSSIAN FEDERATION BALLET, BOLSHOI THEATRE BREZHNEV, LEONID MAFIYA (MAFIA) MOSCOW SOVIET UNION YELTSIN, BORIS SOCIETY
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- 0 oz
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