Jana Bakunina: The Good Russian, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Good Russian
- In Search of a Nation's Soul
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 11/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349136592
- Item number:
- 12206222
- Volume:
- 208 Pages
- Format:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 6.11.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Price |
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| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 33.50* |
Blurb
When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the writer Jana Bakunina, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, felt furious, ashamed, but most of all helpless. A year later she travelled to her home city of Yekaterinburg to see how ordinary Russians viewed the conflict - and whether the soul of her nation had truly been crushed.
Jana finds a booming city seemingly untouched by war. Reconnecting with old friends, she discovers people either happy to go along with a regime that has brought them stability, or else staying out of politics. Most painful of all, her once liberal father has channelled his personal disappointments into becoming a firm fan of Putin.
In the grand humane tradition of Russian dissident writers, Jana Bakunina grapples with a universal problem: what happens when a country you love becomes infected by nationalism? What hope is there when voices of conscience are silenced by dictatorship? And can Russians in exile still imagine a liberated future?
