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003			OCoLC
005			20251028093344.0
008			140606s2015 xx 000 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781455509638
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020			_a1455509639
020			_a9781455509638
035			_a(OCoLC)881140767
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090			_aDK 510.762 .F45 2013
100	1		_aFeifer, Gregory.
245	1	0	_aRussians : _bthe people behind the power.
260			_aNew York, Boston : _bTwelve, _c2015.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
505	0		_aHidden Russia -- Extravagance -- Poverty -- Drinking -- Intimates -- Domestic order -- Indolence and inefficiency -- Avant-garde -- Cold and punishment -- Clan rules -- Grandiosity and bombast -- Future delayed -- Afterword.
520			_aFrom former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. [This book] explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his decade as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions by showing that much of what appears inexplicable about the country is logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor. Traversing the world's largest country from the violent North Caucasus to Arctic Siberia, Feifer conducted hundreds of intimate conversations about everything from sex and vodka to Russia's complex relationship with the world. From fabulously wealthy oligarchs to the destitute elderly babushki who beg in Moscow's streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vitality under a leadership rooted in tradition and often on the edge of collapse despite its authoritarian power. Feifer also draws on formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture to shed much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during, and after communism. Woven throughout is an intimate, first-person account of his family history, from his Russian mother's coming of age among Moscow's bohemian artistic elite to his American father's harrowing vodka-fueled run-ins with the KGB"--Publisher's description.
650		0	_aSocial values _zRussia (Federation)
650		0	_aNational characteristics, Russian.
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zRussia (Federation)
651		0	_aRussia (Federation) _xSocial life and customs.
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