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Susan Richards is the author of Epics of Everyday Life, which won the P.E.N. Time-Life Award for Non-Fiction and the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award in 1990. She edits openDemocracy Russia, part of openDemocracy, the website about global affairs which she co-founded. Klappentext Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new and unfamiliar world. This work reveals how in Russia the past and the present cannot be separated.Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new and unfamiliar world. This work reveals how in Russia the past and the present cannot be separated.Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new and unfamiliar world. This work reveals how in Russia the past and the present cannot be separated.MapList of Main CharactersPreface1992-3There be Monsters Benya’s Ark Visions & Fakes Opening the Cages False Pregnancy The Red Cardinal A-Little-Bit-Me The Other Side of Despair Tied Back to Back Turning Russia Round The Devil’s Tune An Abyss of Stars A Piece of Green Pummice Siberian Cassandra Connoisseur of Silences The Art of Mind Control 1994-6Legend of the Golden Woman The Path Not Taken The Lost Heart of Russia Russia’s Quakers In the Wilderness The Time of the Antichrist Photography is a Sin! Music of the Forest 1995The Dark Side 1996Creeping Fascism Banging the Table 1997-8In Search of the Russian Idea The Prodigal Returns Building Heaven or Hell Touching the Cosmos Riding Two Realities Ticket to the End of the Earth Russian Orestes A Country Doing Cold Turkey Society of Original Harmony Eating Children Singing Cedars? The Twelve-Step Cure Music of the Spheres 1998Looking for Mother Olga The Goddess & Baba YagaLifting Zina’s Curse 1999-2004Cordelia of the Steppes Freedom is Slavery My Dream House Theirs Not to Reason Why One Small Mend in the Past 2005-07Fairy Tale in Dubious Taste The Two-Plank Bridge St Seraphim & the Bomb The Crooked & the Beautiful Glimpses of Grace Finding the Golden Woman Part Six2008How about a Riddle?The Worm TurnsThe Price of DreamsPilnyak’s IslandFestival of Dead Leaves...
