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Cooking, Russian History 20th century Food habits Soviet Union Food writers United States Biography Moscow (Russia) Biography Russia (Federation) Moral conditions Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991- Russian Americans Biography Soviet Union Social life and customs Von Bremzen, Anya Women cooks Soviet Union BiographyFilter By Subjects
Cooking, Russian History 20th century Food habits Soviet Union Food writers United States Biography Moscow (Russia) Biography Russia (Federation) Moral conditions Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991- Russian Americans Biography Soviet Union Social life and customs Von Bremzen, Anya Women cooks Soviet Union BiographyPolitkovskai͡a︡, Anna.
Contents: My country's army and its mothers -- Our new middle ages, or war criminals of all the Russias -- Tanya, Misha, Lena, and Rinat: where are they now? -- How to misappropriate property with the connivance of the government -- More stories from the provinces -- Nord-Ost: the latest tale of destruction -- Akaky Akakievich Putin II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 POLVon Bremzen, Anya.
Summary: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013